New bookmark feature makes consuming content in the Google+ stream easier

Thanks to a new improvement to the Google+ stream, a resume button and ribbon is added when you press "New posts", allowing you to jump between the newly added posts and where you've read up to in the stream.

When +Vic Gundotra announced the beautiful redesign and a smattering of other big new features (including photo enhancements and Hangouts) at Google I/O in May of this year, most of us were very happy to see an improved stream layout with multi-columns and a fresh card design inspired by Google Now. Unfortunately for some, we had to say goodbye to the auto-refreshing stream of the past; to be greeted with a blue button which appears when there are new posts to be read. But let's face it, the auto-refreshing stream in the old Google+ design caused a lot of problems, including for example, the post whizzing by when you're trying to type a comment on it.

New Features: The Ribbon and Resume Button

With theblue manual refresh button for posts, we can choose to load more when we're ready to let fresh content roll in to our stream, but let's say that we're half way down the page and we click the "X new" button. The stream automatically flies all the way to the top to the new posts, and you lose where you are in the stream. Not anymore.

A ribbon is placed where you've read up to, upon clicking the new posts button

As of today, when you click the blue new posts button, it will still bring you right to the top of the stream with the new posts, but you can still carry on reading where you have left off, thanks to a new "Resume" button. Click that and you'll zip back down the stream and will stop at the last post you were reading. Fantastic!

That's not all though, look to the left and you'll see a tidy blue ribbon which indicates the point in the stream where you left off. Have a go, click the new posts button and scroll up and down as much as you like, the ribbon will update to the fresh point where you have read up to. Pretty neat right?

Tap on resume and you'll zip all the way back to where you left off

The feature works on the home stream, as well as for search queries and saved searches.

The as-of-yet not officially announced feature will be a nice surprise for a lot of Google+ users glued to the stream, and should be rolling out to everyone now. Look out for an official announcement from the Google+ team very soon, and remember where you got the scoop from folks!

Have you checked out the new feature? What do you think?

Thanks to +Ramón González for the tip!