What sorting options are available?

Inoreader offers three orders: Newest first, the default, Oldest first and Magic, which puts the articles most relevant to you at the top. You pick one under Sorting in the More (three-dot) menu at the right of the header, and Inoreader remembers the choice for that feed, folder, tag or section.

Pick a sort order

1. Open a feed, folder, tag or the Newsfeed.
2. Click the More (three-dot) button at the right of the header.
3. Under Sorting, choose Newest first, Oldest first or Magic.

Newest first and Oldest first

Both order the list by the date Inoreader received each article. With Oldest first, feeds, folders and the Newsfeed list only the articles of the last 30 days, a good way to catch up on recent posts. For older articles, switch to Newest first and keep scrolling, or use the search.

Magic

Magic sorting lets Inoreader put the most relevant content first. How much your own reading habits count is set under Preferences > Settings > General > Personalization > Sort by Magic: Not influenced by your reading habits, Moderately influenced by your reading habits, the default, or Heavily influenced by your reading habits. Inoreader tracks the feeds you read most and puts their articles first. Turn that off to see what's trending on Inoreader instead. Grouping by date isn't available while you sort by Magic.

Set the default sort order

Inoreader saves the sort for each feed, folder, tag and section separately, and choosing it on a folder also sets it on every feed in the folder, the way layouts work per feed. Everything without a choice of its own follows Preferences > Settings > Article listing > Default settings > Sorting, which offers Newest first and Oldest first. Reset custom sorting under Preferences > Account > Reset account, next to the other display settings, puts every feed and folder back to that default.

Sections with their own sorting

Recently read is ordered by when you read the articles, Annotations by when you annotated them, and Saved web pages by when you saved them. Oldest first reverses these. Read later and Archive have a Sorting list of their own: Newest first and Oldest first by the date you saved or archived the article, Source (A to Z), Longest first, Shortest first and Most progress first. Search results have their own Order filter above the results, and in Trending and a few other sections the order can't be changed.

Plans

Newest first and Oldest first work on every plan. Magic needs Pro and is one way to organize your feeds and the articles you keep.