Make a news page for a special topic area: If you can find several blogs or news feeds that focus on a particular topic (such as urban planning or organic food), then you can create your own custom news page by creating a set with those feeds. Simply create a new set and add feeds to it from sources that write about your choice of topic. Then, click on the “display options” tab and select the “newspaper” template. (Be sure to leave the “grouped by number” option selected.)

Use an old-style reader, but with filtering and grouping: Feedeye’s “reader” view mimics the style of desktop feed reading programs, but is able to group related items so that you don’t waste time re-reading the same information. When creating (or editing) a set, just click the “display options” tab, select the “reader” template, and make sure you’ve ticked the “grouped by number” option. Then, click the “filters” tab to define some filters (see below).

Highlight posts about your favourite topic: If you read lots of blogs about Apple computers but are most interested in new versions of the iPod, or if you visit lots of world news sites but have a special fondness for stories from Finland, create a filter. When editing your set, click the “filters” tab and hit the “add filter“ button. Then type a keyword into the text box (such as “MP3” or “Helsinki”) and change the default “ignore” action to “highlight”. Remember to save your changes when you’re done.

Make a webcomic slideshow: Feedeye has a “slideshow” mode that displays items one by one — which is perfect for images, such as those you get from online comics. Just create a new set, add the RSS feeds from all of your favourite comics, and then choose the “slideshow” template from the “display options” tab.

Avoid having to see posts about stuff you don’t like: Many feeds publish a large number of new items every day, and you might not want to read every single one of them. To avoid these items, just edit the set containing the feeds in question, and click the “filters” tab. Hit the “add filter” button, type a keyword into the text box, and leave the action as “don’t show”. Now if you save the changes, any item that includes that keyword won’t appear in your set display, saving you time.

Make a constantly-updating page with the very latest news: If you only care about the very latest news from several different feeds, create a new set with those feeds, and use the “display options” tab to make it only show items from the last four or five hours. Choose the “flowed stories” view, and tick the “automatically refresh” option. This will give you a page of the very latest items from your feeds that constantly reloads, and you can leave this page open on your desktop as a reference to what’s new.