Rules: automate what happens to every new article
Let your RSS reader sort, forward and act on articles for you. 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, pooled across the team.
What it does
Most RSS readers show you everything and leave the sorting to you. With rules, Inoreader does the sorting for you. Every new article is checked against the conditions you set, and when an article matches, the actions you chose happen at once, whether you are reading or not.
A rule has three parts. The trigger decides which articles are checked. It can be everything you follow, one folder, one feed, a monitoring feed, or the articles you tag, star or save. The conditions say what to look for, such as keywords in the title or the body, an author, a URL, a language, an attachment or the feed's own categories, combined with "all" or "any". The actions say what happens next. A rule can tag the article, star it, mark it as read, save it for later, notify you or send it by email. It can also forward the article to Slack, a Team channel, a webhook or an integration, translate it, summarize it or add a note.
You can also chain rules. A rule can trigger on the result of another rule, so a first rule can narrow a busy feed down and a second one can decide where the remaining articles go.
How it works
- 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. Then choose whether all of the conditions or any of them must match.
- 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, Slack, webhook, Zapier and n8n actions move the article elsewhere.
- Click Run rule to see what the rule would do with the articles already in your account, then save it. From then on, the rule runs on every new article.
What people use it for
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 Slack channel, a Microsoft Teams channel, a Team channel in Inoreader, or 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, so they are ready to read in your language.
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, star or broadcast an article, 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 these conditions and choose whether "all" or "any" of them must match.
What actions can a rule perform?
A rule can tag or star 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, or forward the article to a Team channel, Slack, Microsoft Teams, a webhook, IFTTT, Zapier or n8n. It can also save the article to Evernote, OneNote, Google Drive, Dropbox, Readwise 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 a rule triggered by one that translates 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?
Yes. Click Run rule to preview what the rule would do with the articles already in your account, so you can adjust the conditions before you save it.
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, pooled across the whole team. You can see your usage under Preferences, Billing and usage.
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