I mainly use Opera on my desktop. While I’d love to make Firefox my default, it’s very hard to walk away from the best tab management on the planet found in Opera.
Until Firefox can duplicate what Opera has done with Workspaces, I’ll have to stay closed-source browser.
But Workspaces is not the feature I enjoy in Opera. There is another feature that I have been using lately that makes watching the news very simple.
What I like best about Opera Personal news is that I can cobble together the sources I want and, in a single window, scroll through all the headlines from those sources and click to see the articles I want.
This prevents me from having to open one site after another to see the news I want or need. It’s all about convenience, and it does a great job of that.
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One thing to note is that not all news sources are available for Opera Personal news. Even so, it has a great collection of news to choose from. In fact, in about five minutes, I had a collection of 22 news sources to view. It is that simple and convenient.
Let me show you how to access Opera Personal’s news feature and how to add sources, so you can see only the news you want from a single entry point.
What is Opera Personal’s news feature and how do I use it?
Requirements
The only thing you will need for this is a running instance of the Opera web browser. That is. Let’s read some news.
The first thing you need to do is open the Opera web browser on your desktop. If you haven’t installed the browser yet, you can get an installer from Opera’s download page.
Click the red O menu button in the upper left corner, and from the dropdown menu, click News.
Access to Opera Personal’s news feature is via the Opera menu. Image: Jack Wallen
On the resulting page, click Add Sources in the left panel.
Opera Personal news page is ready for sources. Image: Jack Wallen
In the search field, type a keyword for the news you want.
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For example, if you want to add technology news sources, type technology in the search field, and in the resulting list, click to add as many sources as you want.
Search technology news sources for Opera Personal news. Image: Jack Wallen
If you can’t find what you’re looking for, expand the Browse Catalog section in the lower half of the window, and then expand any of the categories to find the news source you want.
Search for a specific news source for Opera Personal news. Image: Jack Wallen
reading your news
Once you’ve added all the feeds you want, click My Feeds in the left panel to reveal all the news items associated with your saved feeds.
Opera Personal news is ready to go. Image: Jack Wallen
Find something you want to read and click on it to open a new tab showing the article in question.
And that’s all there is to it to use Opera Personal’s news feature. You can even add ZDNET as a source, so you can quickly see what’s been posted on the site, along with all your other sources.
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I’ve been using the Opera Personal news feature every day for some time now, and it has not only saved me time, but also ensured that I don’t miss out on all the news worth reading.
