What are bulk actions?

Bulk actions let you select up to 50 articles in a feed, folder or other article list and act on all of them at once: mark them read or unread, tag them, email, print or export them, open them in tabs or turn them into an Intelligence report. You start them with the Bulk actions button in the header of the article list.

Select mode

The Bulk actions button, a checkbox icon in the header, shows in List, Card and Magazine view on a computer, and in Reading list in Read later and Archive. In Read later and Archive you can also tick the checkbox that appears on an article's picture when you hover over it. In Column view and on phones, the header's ⋯ menu has Enable select mode instead, and Expanded view has no select mode. Once it's on, every article gets a checkbox: click the checkbox or the article to select it, and Shift+click to select everything between it and the last article you picked, up to 50 at a time. The actions bar appears at the top of the reading panel, at the bottom on phones, and counts the selected articles. The X in the bar or Esc clears the selection. A second Esc leaves select mode. How do I use bulk actions? has the steps.

The actions

The bar holds Add to Read later, Mark as read (or Mark as unread when none of the selected articles is unread), Add tags, Create Intelligence report, Share with Team for Team members, Email articles, Save as PDF, Print articles and Open articles in separate browser tabs, and its ⋯ menu adds Export to CSV, Cancel current selection and Disable bulk actions. In Read later the bar also has Archive articles, and in Read later and Archive Mark as finished while Reading progress is on. What can I do with bulk actions? describes each one, How do I tag an article? tags in general and How do I create an Intelligence report? the reports.

The setting behind it

Select mode depends on Multiple select under Preferences > Settings > Article listing, which is on by default. Disable bulk actions in the bar's ⋯ menu turns it off after asking you, and the same setting turns it back on. How many articles can I process at once with bulk actions? explains the limit of 50.

Bulk actions are a Pro feature: a Free account can select articles, but the buttons are disabled and the bar shows "Bulk actions are only available to Pro users." with Upgrade now.