As I have observed earlier, right now there is a lot of good energy around RSS with new feed readers popping up nearly every week. Yesterday Manton Reece released is take on an RSS app called Inkwell that is a companion to his micro.blog service/app that I use to host this blog. Because Inkwell integrates with the blogging platform that I use, I find there are reasons to consider using it while I have resisted looking at other apps.
I have been using RSS since I first learned about it in the early 2000s. Like many, I used Google Reader mostly because it was a web app that I could use on any device. Over the years I tried desktop and phone apps like NetNewsWire, but in the end found myself back to the simple web apps that Dave Winer wrote over the years.
River5 is a simple RSS aggregator that displays the latest updates in a reverse chronological order. It is simple and I host it in a LXC container on one of my Proxmox hosts. The main thing River5 lacks is a way to maintain RSS feeds that I want it to monitor. Dave’s Feedland solved that problem as it is centered around maintaining and sharing RSS feeds while providing both river and mailbox presentations of the feeds.
I find that Feedland presents the latest updates slightly different than River5 in that it seems to batch the updates by source site so not a strict reverse chronological presentation of items. Because of this, I use both, starting with Feedland first thing in the morning to catch up and then use River5 to check in on the latest updates during the day.
The key thing is, I use Feedland and River5 to triage what I want to read, when I see a article I want to read I click the title to open it then save the item in Readwise Reader to read later. I also don’t worry about missing something, if I don’t see an item I don’t care.
If when I am reading an article in Readwise Reader I want to write a blog post about that item and perhaps quote text from it, I copy the article URL to the clipboard then switch to Drafts or Obsidian to write the post. I select any text to quote and copy it in to the draft of the blog post. Inkwell seems well suited for this part of the cycle assuming that it gets the full content of the article.
So, I am dabbling with when I read something I want to write a blog post about, using Inkwell to do that. It might find that this will be more work than worth it but I think I will give it a try for a while.
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