Foragd Help

• Foragd Help
  • Where to Get Help
  • Terminology
  • Getting Started
    • Navigating Around the Interface
    • Adding Sources
  • How to Search Articles & Subscriptions
    • About Search Results
  • Managing Your Subscriptions
    • Customizing the Subscription Display
    • Filtering Articles Within a Subscription
    • Group Subscriptions
    • Search Subscriptions
    • Email Newsletter Subscriptions
    • Bulk Subscription Management
  • Viewing Articles
    • Viewing Remote Article Content
  • Saving and Viewing Your Favorite Subscriptions and Articles
  • Accounts
  • References
    • Search Operators & Filtering Guide
    • Using Keyboard Shortcuts (on Desktops)
  • Policies and Terms of Service
  • Last Updated

Where to Get Help

• This document.
• Email us at [email protected].
• Use the contact form.

Terminology

• Subscription is a source of articles created by the user. The articles may come from different sources, such as a single website, a group of other subscriptions or a configured search. These can also be referred to individually as:
  • Feed Subscription: a subscription to a single website (i.e., an RSS/Atom feed for a particular website).
  • Group Subscription: a subscription that aggregates the articles from other subscriptions.
  • Search Subscription: a subscription created from a particular set of search terms.
• Article: is a single item from a subscription (i.e., an article, blog post, etc.).

Getting Started

Watch the quickstart video showing how to sign-up and add the curated feed sets to get started using Foragd:

Navigating Around the Interface

Use the sidebar (desktops, tablets) or bottom dock (mobile) to navigate between the Home, Subscriptions, Articles, or Favorites pages.

Adding Sources

Foragd supports adding subscriptions from a number of sources:

• A direct feed URL.
• Any website that publishes a supported feed.
• YouTube Channels.
• Google News searches.

To add a subscription, click the Add button in the sidebar (desktop, tablets) or bottom nav bar (mobile), or go to /subscription/add.

By default, you can enter any website or feed URL and Foragd will either find or parse and present potential subscriptions you can subscribe to. Alternatively, use the Source drop-down to add a YouTube channel or Google New search.

Watch the following video for a demonstration:

How to Search Articles & Subscriptions

Use the global search in the header bar to search for anything. It will search across all Subscriptions and Articles, offering both as suggestions. Additionally certain keywords will show action results (for example, searching add will show actions for adding subscriptions). Choose a result to go directly to that article or subscription, an action to perform that action, or hit enter/return to get a full set of results.

Use the advanced search (filter icon at the right of the search bar) to filter by subscription, category, author, date, and status. See also filtering for operators that can be used in the text fields.

About Search Results

• Search will preference articles from your favorite subscriptions.
• Search will preference articles that have been published/updated closer to today’s date.

Managing Your Subscriptions

Customizing the Subscription Display

You can customize any subscription, by changing its name or adding/removing categories. To customize a subscription, choose Edit Subscription from the context menu of the Subscription card:

Categories allow you to easily group and filter your subscriptions. Where possible, some suggested categories will be presented as autocomplete options in the Add Categories input. These will be taken from the commonest categories on Articles within the feed.

Filtering Articles Within a Subscription

You can filter the articles in a subscription by text, authors, or categories. To adjust filters, edit the subscription and enter your filter terms in the appropriate inputs:

See filtering for usage.

Note: article filters are applied globally, meaning all searches, views, and any group/search Subscriptions you create will have the subscription article filters applied.

Group Subscriptions

You can add a Group Subscription which aggregates all the Articles from two or more Feed Subscriptions. This is useful where you subscribe to a number of feeds that have similar content, like Android news sites. When creating a Group Subscription, use the provided search input to filter your existing subscriptions for the ones you want to add:

To add a Group Subscription:

• Search for Add in the global search and choose the Add A Group Subscription action.
• On the Subscriptions page, select Add A Group Subscription from the Actions menu.

Search Subscriptions

Any search can also be made into a Search Subscription. This is useful for keeping track of particular keywords or content across any number of your feed subscriptions.

To add a Group Subscription:

• Search for Add in the global search and select the Add A Search Subscription action.
• On the Subscriptions page, select Add A Search Subscription from the Actions menu.

Email Newsletter Subscriptions

You can subscribe to your favorite newsletters from within Foragd. This allows you to read newsletters alongside your RSS feeds without cluttering your inbox.

First, you will need to create your unique Foragd email address that you will use to subscribe to any newsletters.

• Navigate to Settings->Account and scroll down to Subscribe to Email Newsletters.
• Click on the Generate Email Address button to generate a unique email.
• The page will update with the new unique email.

Once you’ve generated your email address, use it when subscribing to email newsletters. The received emails will be automatically grouped under a new subscription from the sender email. You can then customize it further (add a picture, nickname, or even filter received emails) as with any other subscription.

Bulk Subscription Management

You can manage your subscriptions at Settings->Subscriptions. This page provides a way to edit, mark and manage subscriptions both individually and in bulk. It also shows how many subscriptions you have in total (and what your account limits on subscriptions are).

Viewing Articles

Viewing Remote Article Content

With some subscriptions, you may only see a short snippet or preview when viewing the article content. Clicking the Get Remote Content button at the bottom of the page will tell Foragd to fetch the article from the source site and try to display the full content. If desired, you can switch back to the original feed content by clicking the Show Feed Content button.

Notes:

• Fetching the feed content can take up to 30 seconds, but is usually much shorter.
• While in most cases, Foragd will be able to retrieve the full article in this way, there is no guarantee it will succeed. The fetched content can sometimes be incorrect, incomplete, or be badly formatted.

Saving and Viewing Your Favorite Subscriptions and Articles

You can mark any subscription or article as a favorite. All favorites can be found on the favorites page. On the subscriptions list page, you can filter to show only favorites.

While Foragd does not retain all feed articles forever, marking an article as a favorite will ensure it is kept indefinitely. Foragd makes a copy of the article and stores it specially for you.

Accounts

• You can manage your account at Settings->Account.
• You can change your plan level or cancel anytime.
• Canceling a plan occurs at your next billing date. Until then, you can continue to use your plan. You can also reverse a cancellation during this period if you change your mind.

Note: Foragd uses Paddle as our payments processor for website users and Google Play Billing for Android app users. You will be taken to a hosted Paddle payment page, or your Play Billing Subscriptions, for managing your subscriptions and payments.

References

Search Operators & Filtering Guide

By default words are matched with OR (i.e., cats dogs will match cats OR dogs). The following operators can be used for more refined searches:

• + signifies AND operation (i.e., food AND beverages).
• | signifies OR operation (i.e., food OR beverages).
• - negates the word (i.e., NOT samsung)
• "" represents an exact phrase match (i.e., "galaxy watch").
• \* at the end of a word indicates a prefix match (i.e., bird\* will match bird, birding and birds).

Some real examples:

All operators can be combined, for e.g., +python +tutorial "machine learning" -chatgpt.

For more guidance and further examples, see the blog post Clearing the Noise: Article Filtering in Foragd.

Using Keyboard Shortcuts (on Desktops)

The following shortcut keys are available on desktop:

Policies and Terms of Service

• Acceptable Use Policy.
• Terms of Service.
• Privacy Policy.

Last Updated

Jul 13th, 2026