The feature I love most is being able to filter feed items based on content. This is great for sites that report on lots of different topics, and I can just eliminate the posts I don't care about.
I filter (almost all) of them into folders that don't notify and then they are there ready to read across all of my devices that are logged into my email.
I find that email clients are quite suited to RSS reading. They have folders, searching, filtering and unread/read/deleted tracking that is synced cross-device. And for the few feeds that I want to be "urgent" it is easy to send them to my inbox.
I have written about my workflow in the past:
With email I already have infinitely flexible filtering, sorting, on-the-fly modification of headers and content, and a reader with best in class threading and TUI.
So I use RSS to email to inject all the RSS content into this ecosystem and inherit all the goodness of email for RSS as well.
(This is how I follow HN, for instance.)
I also find it interesting that running an RSS-to-Email service I have noticed that we both fetch feeds from and send mail to kill-the-newsletter.com. I would be curious to know what their use cases are.
Simple if you want it, you can make it complex if you need it. Decent price from the start.
And I can attach Reeder to it directly.
I turned to it when the tiny tiny reader maintainer turned out to be a huge p*ck. Wasn't just me, others confirmed.
Think I am using miniflux for 6-7 years now
So, for example, I consume HN via rss, and filter out all the stories about tech & political celebrities, which have low intellectual caloric content.
I should probably add a filter to exclude "?" to apply Betteridge's law...
By a mile. The command line doesn't really bother me, and the killer feature is being able to hook it into my crontab, so it acts like Google Reader (without the social features), but it's completely local to my machine.
I honestly don't want to rely on another service again if I can help it, and this tool really scratches that itch.
I've also used NewsBlur which I would probably like more if I paid. One thing about Handy News Reader is there is a way to see the URLs of existing feeds, which I have not found how to do in NewsBlur.
A previous discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424
And from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108413
I haven't tried any of the others in comments here, so can't make comparisons; that might be interesting.
The main problem with RSS apps these days is they respect the article summary and do not render the full article in the app, so you have to read in the in-app browser or default browser. The (iOS) in-app browser doesn't have extensions or dark mode, so
Alternatively, everyone wants you to visit their site so only publish their RSS with a summary.
1. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/lisp/gnus...
When Google Reader shut down I switch to feedly for a bit, don't remember now why but for some reason I didn't like it. So I started self hosting my own instance of ttrss and haven't looked back since.
Miniflux itself is an amazing small Golang app, that can be easily deployed through Docker.
I run the server on a RP4. It pushes the latest article/podcast to my phone via a cronjob running every 60 seconds. Each feed has its own channel. I also throw it into a postgres db on the same RP4 for posterity.
It's great!
I've been subscribed for probably 6+ years now. I've tried various others but this has the mix of power user and design. Great filters, newsletter sign ups, can get around most paywall.
