Somewhat relevant to a post earlier this week, I use RSS to subscribe to various blogs / sites / alerts etc... - the problem is that it is indeed reactive and not 'organic': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12196131
That's a link to the various sites, blogs, updates that I subscribe to, Phronix and Ars are both a bit noisey but other than them the rest I take good care to keep up with.
I personally think it's fantastic that RSS has made such a come back (some would say it never actually went away), it' such a simple, useful tool that's easy to integrate with just about anything.
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Another interesting discussion I enjoy having is finding out how people read / digest / discover feeds:
tldr; I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly's own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself.
I can see myself dropping back to a single app / service, which would likely be Feedly but for me Reeder is just a lot cleaner and faster, having said that I could be a bit stuck in my comfort zone with it so I'm open to change if it ever causes me an issue (which it hasn't).
- Notation and highlighting support (a bit like Evernote)
- Search and filtering across large numbers of feeds / content
- IFTTT, Zapier, Buffer and Hootsuite integration
- Built in save / share functionality (that I only use when I'm on the website)
- Backup feeds to Dropbox
- Very fast, regardless of the fact that I'm in Australia - which often impacts the performance of apps / sites that tend to be hosted on AWS in the US as the latency is so high.
- Article de-duplication is currently being developed I believe, so I'm looking forward to that!
- Easy manual import, export and backup (no vendor lock-in is important to me)
- Public sharing of your Feedly feeds (we're getting very meta here!)
> - Now can someone come up with a good bookmarking addon / workflow for me? :)
Unless I've missed something I'm puzzled why social bookmarking has never taken off or achieved critical mass. Once upon a time there was deli.cio.us (or however they punctuated it!) but when that went through a bunch of churn I think it felt like it got semi-abandoned - I stopped using it _ages_ ago anyway.
What is more incredible to me is that Linked Data is based on URLs so you'd think that social bookmarking would have evolved out of something in that space at some point but to the best of my knowledge it hasn't.
Perhaps it's the organisational, classification, taxonomy/folksonomy[1], tagging conundrum that is holding this space back, I really don't know.
http://feedly.com/smcleod/blogs
That's a link to the various sites, blogs, updates that I subscribe to, Phronix and Ars are both a bit noisey but other than them the rest I take good care to keep up with.
I personally think it's fantastic that RSS has made such a come back (some would say it never actually went away), it' such a simple, useful tool that's easy to integrate with just about anything.
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Another interesting discussion I enjoy having is finding out how people read / digest / discover feeds: tldr; I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly's own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. I can see myself dropping back to a single app / service, which would likely be Feedly but for me Reeder is just a lot cleaner and faster, having said that I could be a bit stuck in my comfort zone with it so I'm open to change if it ever causes me an issue (which it hasn't).
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I use a combo of two tools:
Feedly - https://feedly.com RSS feed subscription management.
Features:
- Keyword alerts
- Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url
- Notation and highlighting support (a bit like Evernote)
- Search and filtering across large numbers of feeds / content
- IFTTT, Zapier, Buffer and Hootsuite integration
- Built in save / share functionality (that I only use when I'm on the website)
- Backup feeds to Dropbox
- Very fast, regardless of the fact that I'm in Australia - which often impacts the performance of apps / sites that tend to be hosted on AWS in the US as the latency is so high.
- Article de-duplication is currently being developed I believe, so I'm looking forward to that!
- Easy manual import, export and backup (no vendor lock-in is important to me)
- Public sharing of your Feedly feeds (we're getting very meta here!)
2. Reeder - http://reederapp.com
A (really) beautiful and fast iOS / macOS client.
- The client apps aren't cheap but damn they're good quality, I much prefer them over the standard Feedly apps
- Obviously supports Feedly as a backend but there are many other source services you can use along side each other
- I save articles using Reeder's clip to Evernote functionality... a lot
- Sensible default keyboard shortcuts (or at least for me they felt natural YMMV of course)
- Good customisable 'share with' options
- Looks pleasant to me
- Easy manual import an export just like Feedly
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- Now can someone come up with a good bookmarking addon / workflow for me? :)
Edit: Formatting - god I wish HN just used markdown