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A Feed is a source Snippiz checks on your behalf: an RSS/Atom feed, a YouTube channel, a subreddit, or a podcast. Nothing shows up on your Snips page until you've subscribed to at least one. There are two ways to add one. The first is Explore (see below) - browse or search for a Feed someone else already added, and subscribe with one click. The second is pasting a URL directly into the "Add a Feed" box on the Feeds page: a full feed URL works, but so does just a site's bare domain (like example.com) - Snippiz looks at the page and finds its Feed automatically. Before anything is added, Snippiz shows a quick preview (title, icon, description) so you can confirm it found the right thing. YouTube channel URLs (any of /@handle, /channel/…, /c/…, /user/…), subreddit URLs (reddit.com/r/…), Medium profiles and publications, and Spotify or Apple Podcasts show links are all recognized the same way - paste any of them like a normal Feed URL, as does a personal blog's page on a hosting platform (like world.hey.com/dhh). The Feeds page itself lists everything you're currently subscribed to; open a Feed from there to see only its own Snips, mark them all as read at once, or unsubscribe.

Explore is where you find Feeds, two ways. If you already know what you're looking for, use the "Find a Feed" search box at the top - paste a site's URL, its bare domain, or search by name, and subscribe straight from the result with one click, exactly like adding a Feed from the Feeds page. If you don't know exactly what you want yet, browse instead: five tabs below the search box sort the whole library by Most Popular (subscriber count), Most Active (Snips per day), Recently Updated, Newest (most recently added to Snippiz), or Random, for when you just want to stumble onto something; a filter row narrows any of them down to just YouTube channels or just podcasts. However you get there, every Feed card shows its name, a short description, and a relevant stat, with an "Add" button right on the card so you never have to leave the page to subscribe.

Once you're subscribed to a Feed or two, this is where everything they publish shows up: articles, YouTube videos, podcast episodes, all in a single newest-first list regardless of which Feed they came from. Each Snip card shows a title, summary, cover image, and which Feed it's from, plus quick actions to Tag it or mark it read. YouTube Snips open in a quick video player right on the page, and podcast Snips open a quick audio player the same way - no need to jump out to YouTube or the podcast's own site. Close one partway through and it picks up right where you left off next time you open it on the same device, with a thin progress bar on the card itself showing how far you got. Videos play privately by default, which means they do not show up in your YouTube watch history - turn "Private YouTube playback" off in Settings if you would rather they did. You can choose how the list looks in Settings: Big (the default, roomy cards with a large image), Compact (smaller cards, more per screen), or Simple (a plain text list, no images, for the fastest possible scan) - and how many Snips load per page (24, 48, or 60) alongside it.

Every Snip starts out unread, and by default the Snips page (and a Feed's own page) only shows you unread ones - flip on the "Show read Snips" toggle there if you want everything, read included. Opening a Snip does not mark it read by itself unless you've turned on "Mark as read on open" in Settings; without that setting, marking one read is a deliberate action - click its read-toggle by hand, or clear a whole batch at once with "Mark all as read" from the Snips page (every Feed) or a single Feed's own page (just that one). For a YouTube or podcast Snip with that setting on, "opened" means actually watched or listened to almost all of it (95%), not just clicking play - closing the player early leaves it unread. Two small badges in the navbar keep you oriented at a glance: one shows your total unread Snip count, the other shows how many of your subscribed Feeds currently have anything unread at all.

Tags let you pull Snips out of the firehose and organize them your own way, independent of which Feed they came from. Every account starts with two: Favorites, for things you want to keep, and Read Later, for things you haven't gotten to yet - both work like any other Tag, though Favorites can't be renamed or deleted. Create as many of your own from the Tags page as you like, each with a custom emoji icon you pick from a built-in emoji picker, so they're easy to tell apart at a glance. Tag a Snip directly from its card - no need to open it first - and it'll show up under that Tag's own tab on the Tags page, which works like a tab bar: one tab per Tag, switch between them to see everything filed under each. A tagged Snip stays put once it's tagged, even if you later unsubscribe from the Feed it came from or mark it as read - tagging is the only thing that keeps or drops it from that list. The Reorder Tags button lets you drag your Tags into any order you like, used for both the tab bar and the Tag picker on Snip cards.

Want to keep a Feed around without its Snips cluttering your day-to-day? Mute it instead of unsubscribing - from its card on the Feeds page, or its own page, right next to Unsubscribe. A muted Feed drops out of the Snips page and stops counting toward both unread badges, but stays fully reachable: its own page works exactly as before, and its card on the Feeds page still shows its own unread count, just sorted to the bottom of your list. Mark all as read on the Snips page leaves a muted Feed alone too, for the same reason: it isn't one of the Snips you were looking at. Unmute it any time to bring it right back to normal.

Group your subscribed Feeds in whatever way makes sense to you - by topic, by how often you check them, whatever. The Feeds page shows a tab bar for it: an All tab that always lists everything you're subscribed to, plus one tab per Group you create with the + button next to it. Move a Feed into (or out of) a Group from its own card, right next to its Mute and Unsubscribe buttons - a Feed belongs to at most one Group at a time. Whichever tab you last had open is remembered, so the Feeds page reopens right where you left it. The Reorder Groups button lets you drag your Groups into any order you like, used for both the tab bar and the Move to Group menu.

Settings brings together the handful of things that change how Snippiz behaves for your account specifically, rather than what it shows: the Snip list layout (Big, Compact, or Simple) and how many Snips load per page (24, 48, or 60), whether opening a Snip marks it read automatically, and how many days back a newly subscribed Feed starts showing Snips as unread (0 to 7 days, so a brand-new subscription doesn't dump years of backlog on you as unread). Every control here takes effect immediately on save - there's nothing else to configure to start using a change. Further down, Export Feeds downloads every Feed you're subscribed to as an OPML file, and Import Feeds reads one back in and subscribes you to whatever it lists - the same format most other RSS readers use, so it works both for moving to Snippiz and for keeping a backup elsewhere. Below that, Export my data downloads everything Snippiz holds about your account as a single JSON file, and Delete account removes the account and all of it for good.

The theme switcher in the navbar switches Snippiz between Light and Dark mode instantly, no page reload needed - or pick System to automatically follow your device's own light/dark setting, including switching live if you change it. Whichever you pick is remembered for next time you open Snippiz on this browser, so you only need to set it once.

Sign in with Google, GitHub, or Discord - there's no separate Snippiz password to create or remember. Whichever provider you use, your subscriptions, Tags, and read state are tied to that one account. You can sign out at any time from the avatar menu in the top-right corner of the navbar. Settings holds the two bigger account actions: Export my data, which downloads everything stored about your account as one JSON file, and Delete account, which removes the account along with your subscriptions, read state, Tags, Groups, and activity.

Snippiz is a web app, not something installed separately on each device - open it in a browser on your phone, tablet, or computer, sign in with the same account, and everything is exactly where you left it. Subscriptions, Tags, and read/unread state all live on the server tied to your account, so there's nothing to manually keep in sync yourself. If you're moving from (or to) a different RSS reader, Settings has Export/Import buttons for your Feed subscriptions using the standard OPML format instead.

Curious what runs underneath? The How It's Built page lists every technology Snippiz is made of and explains the reasoning behind each choice, in plain language. It's linked from the footer and from the avatar menu, and you don't need an account to read it.