crankygeek

I’m one of the (very?) few people who don’t love all of FeedDemon’s keyboard shortcut goodness. I use FeedDemon like a browser - all mouse all the time. Of course, that’s kind of a pain when paging through lots of posts. Awhile ago I’d broken down and started using the “J” shortcut to move through posts, but I still wanted a mouse-only solution.

I’ve been using Logitech mice for years and though I don’t necessarily love their drivers, I’ve got these extra buttons on my current one that I don’t use, since I hate the supposed “features” they add, which led to Eureka Moment #2 (here’s #1) - why not map those buttons to keystrokes?

In Logitech’s current driver (and probably several versions back for all I know) not only can you map buttons to keystrokes, but you can set the actions to specific programs. So I added FeedDemon to the list of programs and set the “Document Flip” button on my MX Revolution to the newspaper shortcut for “Next Item (automatically move to next feed)” and, because I like to control read state on posts at the individual level, I also set the Middle Button (scroll wheel button) to “Toggle read.” So now I don’t have to touch the keyboard to while reading feeds and Nick doesn’t have to listen to me whine about wanting to do more with less keyboarding.