![]() ![]() These are summed up by its easy reading experience. Like most of its competitors, the best aspects require a “Pro” subscription, but it’s definitely not a requirement. Feederįeeder is a sharp-looking RSS reader that is definitely worth keeping an eye on. To really get the most out of NewsBlur, you will need the premium subscription, but you can always add it to third-party apps for more versatility. NewsBlur’s ability to “train” your feed over time so it learns what authors and categories you like is invaluable to curating a more perfect reading experience. Want to add email newsletters to your RSS feed? That’s available for all users. The free version limits you to just 64 sites but included in that are Twitter & YouTube feeds that can be read alongside websites and blogs. ![]() I'd spend more time doing things and less time reading about them.The best features, like searching feeds or saving stories, as well as having the ability to create custom RSS folders, unlock with a small yearly subscription. I'm not *super* into the whole PKM thing. Drafts or Evernote or Twitter or Facebook or micro.blog or tumblr or WordPress or DayOne. writing or work or whatever into my tool of choice. In an ideal world, I'd pull everything in by RSS, then spit it out to a bookmarking service if I want to save it and a read-later service if I can't read it now. I just don't want to pay *more* or self-host. I wish Feedbin did something like that server side, but I guess there's Feedly and Inoreader, which have some methods for "meta-aggregation". If I see that 14 sites have linked to an article, I know "what's going on" inside of the feeds that I care about, rather than what's going on according to the "journalistic algorithm of major news outlets" It's an information silo, but at least I have control over what creates that bubble. ![]() This emulates the now defunct, but awesome functionality of the Fever reader. The "for information" articles are nice for iOS clients like Lire and Fiery Feeds that identify the most linked items in a list to see what's "hot". I have some "actions" that star or mark read some content that I definitely want to read (specific games or youtube channels or twitter authors) or avoid (some reddit thread, or stuff I want for information, but not for reading.) I like saved searches, read-later functionality, and a nice web interface all in the same place. It doesn't pull in Facebook, but it does Twitter. Others mention other services that pull content and generate a feed. It doesn't always give me what I want, but I like what it gives me. Politepol and Feedfry for conventional multi-item RSS feeds, like for news sites.Deltafeed shows just what changed in a single item RSS feed, like a version number on a download page, or an update on an announcement page.Some tools you may like for sites that don't have RSS feeds: Feedbro supports them just like any other source.įor the few news sites I do have in my RSS reader, they either have full content already or I use Feedbro's feature to automatically grab the full articles. Small subreddits, too, it's easy to miss posts if they get pushed out by high volume subs, or you just don't visit reddit every day (posts no longer show up on your front page if they're older than 24 hours).įor this reason I subscribe to the RSS of the subs I moderate plus the modqueue, and since I have to click through anyway to take action it doesn't really matter if the full content isn't in the feed.įor general news Google News is better, RSS is for more important stuff that you don't want falling through the cracks.Īn RSS reader is also a way to consume content from platforms that are otherwise cancer i.e. Time is saved simply because you don't have to manually open a bunch of sites each day just to look at them and see there's nothing new.įor example software updates for small programs that don't have an auto-update feature, their blogs that document new features, new album releases on a platform that doesn't have notifications or they work poorly (looking at you Deezer/Spotify), even Youtube channels since notifications sometimes don't get sent at all even if you're subscribed. A big use for RSS is to monitor seldom updating sites. ![]()
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