Automate what happens to every new article
Rules sort, forward and act on articles for you. Set the trigger, the conditions and the actions once, and Inoreader applies them to every new article, around the clock.
See pricing- ProPro includes 30 rules, and more are available as an add-on.
- TeamEvery Team and Team Intelligence plan includes rules, and new Team plans pool them across the team.
Automate what happens to new articles
Most RSS readers show you everything and leave the sorting to you. With rules, every new article is checked against your conditions, and the actions you chose happen at once, whether you are reading or not.
Triggers
Choose which articles are checked: everything you follow, a folder, a feed, a monitoring feed, or the articles you tag or save to Read later.
Conditions
Look for keywords in the title or the body, an author, a URL, a language, an attachment or the feed's own categories, combined with And or Or.
Actions
Tag the article, save it to Read later or mark it as read, notify you or email it. Forward it to a Team channel or a webhook, send it to a service such as Evernote or Google Drive, translate it, summarize it or add a note.
Chains of rules
A rule can trigger on the result of another rule, so one rule narrows a busy feed and the next decides where the remaining articles go.
Create a rule
- Open Automate, then Rules, and create a new rule.
- Choose the trigger. It can be all articles, a folder, a feed, a monitoring feed, or something you do, such as tagging or starring an article.
- Add conditions. "Title contains" and "Content contains" cover most cases, and you can add author, URL, language or attachment conditions when you need them. From the second condition on, choose And when every condition must match or Or when one is enough.
- Add as many actions as you need. Tag and save actions keep your own reading organized. Email, push and desktop alerts tell you when something matches. Team channel, webhook and send-to-service actions move the article elsewhere.
- Save the rule, and from then on it runs on every new article. Run rule also applies it to up to 1,000 of the newest articles already in your account, actions included.
Use cases
Alerts without a separate tool
Set up a rule on a monitoring feed for your brand or your competitors that sends you a push notification or an email the minute a matching article appears. You no longer have to wait for a daily alert digest.
Research that files itself
Save every article that mentions your project to Evernote, OneNote or Raindrop.io as it arrives, so your notes stay up to date without copying links by hand.
Sending articles to your team's tools
Forward the articles that match a client, a market or a product to a Team channel in Inoreader, which on a Team plan passes them on to a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel, or to a webhook that posts into your own system. When the source is in another language, a rule can also translate the articles as they arrive.
Frequently asked questions
What is a rule in an RSS reader?
A rule is an automation that runs on every new article. When an article matches the conditions you set, such as a keyword, an author, a feed or a language, the rule performs actions on it. It can tag the article, save it, or send it to your email or to another app. You set up a rule once, and it runs for as long as you keep it.
What can trigger a rule?
A rule can start from a new article in all your feeds, in one folder, in one feed or in a monitoring feed. It can also start when you tag an article, add it to Read later or share it in a Team channel, when you save a web page or upload a file, or when there is a new Intelligence report. A rule can even start from another rule, so you can chain rules together.
Which conditions can a rule check?
A rule can check keywords in the title or the content, the author, the article URL, the language, attachments such as images or audio, and the feed's own categories. You can combine several conditions with And, so every one must match, or with Or, so one is enough.
What actions can a rule perform?
A rule can tag an article, mark it as read or save it to Read later. It can send you a push notification, a desktop alert or an email, forward the article to a webhook or, on a Team plan, send it to a Team channel and on to the Slack or Microsoft Teams channel connected to it. It can also save the article to Google Drive, Instapaper, Evernote, OneNote, Dropbox or Raindrop.io, translate it, create a summary or add a note. One rule can perform several actions at once. A rule can also be triggered by another rule, and when a rule is triggered by a rule that translates, it waits until the translation is finished, so its email, push notification, summary or webhook carries the translated article.
Can I test a rule before it runs?
Not as a preview. Run rule saves the rule first and then applies it to up to 1,000 of the newest articles from the past month, performing every action on the matches. To try your conditions safely, start with a harmless action such as a test tag, check the result and add the real actions afterwards.
How many rules do I get?
The Pro plan includes 30 rules, and more are available as an add-on. Team and Team Intelligence plans include rules too, and new Team plans pool them across the whole team. You can see your usage under Preferences > Billing and usage.
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