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0 pointssigil13y ago0 comments

Based on your must-have list, a good low-tech solution might be an RSS to email gateway.

Then your mail client becomes your RSS client. Gmail has j/k key bindings, is relatively unadorned, and facilitates your skim / skip workflow. Excerpts might require some work, but perhaps you could coerce them into the subject line.

Aaron Swartz wrote a nice RSS to email gateway btw: http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/

I have a crappier one that delivers directly into a Maildir, and I use it to read news in mutt: http://search.cpan.org/~acg/rssdrop-0.2/rssdrop

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quotemstr13y ago

"Low-tech"? Email is the best way to read RSS! Email has all the features of high-end RSS headers:

  * Remember your read messages, even across clients
  * Star and read for later
  * Cross-platform
  * Configurable archiving
  * Keyword filtering
  * Search past articles
  * Organize feeds into folders using configurable rules
  * Social! (Use the "forward" button.)

What's not to like about email?

egh13y ago

I'm surprised more people don't do this. It's pretty easy to set up.

Here's a little bit I wrote about using rss2email + emacs. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HOWTOReadFeedsInEmacsViaEmail

johns13y ago

IFTTT will let you easily do RSS to email too: ifttt.com/feed

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