Quick Start to
This section describes how to start using . It explains the user interface and shows you how to add your own feed to the list. This section is particularly interesting if you are not yet familiar with the general RSS/Atom and feed aggregator concept.

The Main Window
When you first start , you see its main window:
main window
main window
The main window consists of the feed list, the article list and the article viewer.
The feed list is on the left. In the tree, you have news feeds you can select. A news feed is a collection of articles: for example, the recent news of a news site or the new entries of a blog. The default list contains feeds related to the project, but of course you can add your own feeds and remove the ones you are not interested in.
In the upper right is the article list. It contains all the articles of the feed selected in the feed list (if it is empty, you must first fetch the feed). The list shows the headlines of the articles and the date when they were published. By default, the newest articles are at the top.
The article list
The article list for one feed
If you select an article, it will be displayed in the article viewer in the lower right of the window. Depending on the feed, it contains either only a headline, a short summary, or the complete article content.
Reading an article from Planet
Reading an article from Planet

Adding a feed
provides you with some default feeds related to - of course, you probably want to add your own feeds. Good candidates are the news sites you visit regularly.
Go to the menu Feed and choose Add Feed... or use the default keyboard shortcut (Ins). The following dialog appears, with an input line labeled Feed URL:.
Add a new feed
Add a new feed
Enter planet.ubuntu.com or http://planet.ubuntu.com in the line edit next to Feed URL and click OK.
The feed settings dialog appears and you can modify the default options. When you are happy with the feed settings, click OK again.
The feed properties dialog
The feed properties dialog
Now Planet Ubuntu has been added to your feed list.
There are multiple other ways to find and add interesting feeds. Within , websites browsed with will display the recognizable RSS icon in the bottom-right if a compatible news feed is detected at the website. Just left-click on the icon and choose Add Feed to :
Automatically finding feeds through
Automatically finding feeds through
On pages with this RSS or this icon, right-click on the icon and choose in the context menu Copy Link Address:
Automatically finding feeds through
Automatically finding feeds through
Switch to , select Add Feed... and the Feed URL is filled out with the link address.
All feeds added using this procedures appear under Imported Feeds folder in the feed list, and from there you can use your mouse to drag it to a different folder.

Creating a Folder
After adding your own feeds, you may want to group them in some way, rather than just leave them unsorted. So let us create a folder for the Planet Ubuntu feed we just added:
Select the parent folder of the new folder. In this example, we select All Feeds.
Open Feed New Folder.... Enter News (or a more appropriate name for the feed category) in the line edit and choose OK.
The New Folder dialog
The New Folder dialog
Now you can drag the Planet Ubuntu feed to the new folder.
The News folder in the feed list
The News folder in the feed list

Browsing inside of
When reading feed articles, often you may want to read the web page that belongs to the article: some articles only contain the headline, and not the actual content. In this case, you need to visit the web page to read the complete article. Or perhaps an article links to some website, or you are reading a blog and want to comment on an entry. For these situations, contains a simple web browser. Whenever you follow a link in the article viewer, by default opens the link in new tab.
Note that the browser in is not intended to replace your favorite Web Browser. It is meant for reading articles, commenting on them, or following up a link quickly. It is not meant for browsing the web in general. It lacks many features fully-fledged web browsers offer.