User Documentation - ZooKeepers/giraffe GitHub Wiki

A live instance of Giraffe can be accessed at http://giraffe-rss.herokuapp.com/

Getting Started

  1. Select the "Login" tab if you are an existing user, or the "Register Account" tab if you are new.
  2. Input a username and password.
  3. You will now see the main page of Giraffe. We've set you up with some initial RSS feeds to read.

Article Pane

The Article Pane is the list of articles on the right side of the page.

Click on an article title to expand the article. If you would like to read the full article, click "Go to full article..."

Click the bookmark icon on the left side of any article entry to bookmark that entry to read again later.

Click the letter icon on the right side of a read article to mark the article as unread.

Navigation Bar

Giraffe can be navigated with the sidebar on the left.

Click "Today" to see current articles.

Click "Bookmarked" to see articles that you have previously bookmarked.

Click on "All Feeds" or a specific feed to filter the feeds being shown.

Or, add a new feed by pasting its URL into the "Add Custom Feed" textbox and clicking the Plus icon.