Using feedly as a power user. (not the river)

I just left an update with a problem. I thought I'd take this opportunity to give you a separate update with some user feedback.

I am probably one of the people that you originally designed the 'river' view for. However, I have become more efficient at using regular feedly and I didn't care for the river so I don't use it. The problem with the river is that I have so many headlines it takes to much mental work on my part to process. I need more context in terms of categories etcetera.

So I use the standard category view to access my articles.

On the other hand there are still a few annoyances that keep feedley from being as efficient as I want. First, it insists on showing only a few of the headlines on my busier feeds. In order to read all of the headlines I have to mark all read on the page, then refresh until all headlines are revealed. There are a couple of issues I'd like to note:

1) I have found that there is a difference between Mark all read at the top of the page that also marks everything from every feed source -- even if its not on the page. And, Mark page read (or whatever its called) at the bottom of the page that marks just those on the current page. I have figured this out, but it seems it would be confusing to an untrained user. I would like to keep both options, and list them in both places - top and bottom of the page -- something like this:
mark all feeds read | mark all articles on page read
However, for me this is just a nit, since I've learned to work with it.

2) I understand why you don't show every unread article in the feed as a default. I suspect that is the way to stay for an average user. However, I would like an option that displays all unread articles. Keep the format as you have it. List the feedsource, followed by the articles. If the unread articles span multiple days, group them by the date posted.

3) The real innovation I would want is some way to organize all of the duplicate articles on a subject. Let's say that Apple just announced a new Ipod. I will have multiple articles on the topic from multiple sources. I would really really like some way to group these articles like this:

Apple (Ipod, Itunes, Apple, mac)
CNET: Apple announces 20th generation Ipod nano
CNET: Apple's new telepathy feature with Itunes
CNET: First look at Ipod nano from Apple
Engadget: Rumored new Apple notebook

The first line is a category that I create labelled "Apple". It pulls in all headlines that contain keywords from the subsequent list (Ipod, Itunes, Apple, mac).

I can create multiple categories and headlines are only shown in the first category that they match.

Following my self-created categories are the normal feeds. These feeds contain all unread articles MINUS the articles already categorized above. I don't want to have to wade through the same articles twice.

Bottom line is that I am an information junkie. Its important for me in my job. I am a professor and I cover things like this with my students. In fact I plan to give my classes a brief feedly overview in the next few weeks as an example of an RSS reader.

Anyway, the look of feedly is pleasant, but the really important thing to me is features that let me quickly assimilate the important news of the day. Feedly has some real pluses but I really need some way to see all unread articles and to quickly group similar articles so I can pick one representative headline to read and move on.

Thanks for listening,
Michael