Exporting feeds from iGoogle to Google Reader
A few weeks ago, iGoogle has changed its look. It now allows for some features such as expanded canvas view for its gadgets, and all RSS feeds show a small description below the title.
Although the description feature is useful, it doubles or triples the size of each RSS gadget. My first response to that was reorganize my iGoogle pages to split gadgets based on categories and maintain everything in a single page - I hate scrolling.
However, the new iGoogle page did not allow to move gadgets between pages using drag and drop as the old one did. As it was a common complaint, Google fixed it a few days later, but meanwhile I decided to move to Google Reader.
What disappointed me the most was that there is no direct way to export the feeds from iGoogle into Reader. The help page points to an external link that contains a gadget that supposedly generates an OPML file with all the feeds in the page. But it didn't.
Eventually I found this page that provided a satisfactory solution, generating an OPML that could then be imported by Google Reader, and even kept the pages as categories.
It's a pity that Google doesn't provide a quick direct and internal solution for moving feeds from one service to the other. But luckily there is solution in this case.