I have tried out about a dozen different blog readers and I currently like my Jetbrains Omea Reader the best.  However, that doesn’t mean that I think it’s perfect.  I just sent them this detailed list of feature requests:

“I LOVE Omea Reader and am considering purchasing Omea Pro to put my e-mail into the same application.

 A few change requests:

Newspaper view - I like the ease of use of the newspaper view but I prefer the way the newspaper view works in the Onfolio tool. (almost but not quite enough to

• Highlight which blog entry I'm reading in the newspaper view (draw a box around it). 
• When I hit the space bar move to the next blog entry. 
• When I'm reading a blog entry, mark it as read.  I am annoyed that I have to mark a blog entry as read manually after I've looked through them in the newspaper view. 
• Give me the ability to flag items in the newspaper view.
• Give me the ability to read Recent and Unread categories in a newspaper view.  I don't understand why that doesn't work now. 

Comments - comments are what make blogging such a powerful tool and I like the ability to download comments by clicking a button. 

• I'd also like to have a global option to ALWAYS download comments. 
• If the comment is posted via RSS I should be able to get new comments on old posts (and be notified that that post has changed) without having to check manually.  I'd like an old blog post with a new comment to be highlighted as changed in some way (maybe just marked as unread)
• I'd like to be able to read the comments in the newspaper view

 Plugin request - I like the idea of the post to confluence plug in.  But I use a different tool to write my blog posts and I'd like to see Omea send the post to it.  I use BlogJet to write my posts offline and post at my leisure.  Can we add a "Post to BlogJet" button to the UI so I can have a BlogJet format document created for me with the contents of the particular bit of information I'm reading in it (and a trackback link).”

With this nit-picky a list of requests, you ought to be able to see that it’s a pretty complete tool.  Check it out for yourself.  It’s free if you download it before the end of this month.

— Matt Ranlett