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I think it came down to personal preferences. I tried to use RSS but it's yet another app that I cannot form a habit to check it. Plus I like the personal look

I think it came down to personal preferences. I tried to use RSS but it's yet another app that I cannot form a habit to check it. Plus I like the personal look and feel of each email newsletter I got. I instead of relying on email as a real time news feed. But getting too many emails I have to category and make miss some exciting development news. I though of this, why not combine all of the newsletter and display them on a single page, easy to remember URL that I can check anytime. And make this: https://hanami.run/channel/devnews https://hanami.run/channel/devnews The idea is I can have many channel, each channel subscribe to a bunch of newsletter and I just read them from here. Example my morning news: https://hanami.run/channel/news https://hanami.run/channel/news

syoc 6y ago
RSS being pull and not push is a great feature IMO. You check up on your feeds when you want to, if you never do it might not really be worth your time or you might not enjoy it. If you really want some kind of reminder then some readers like tt-rss can send daily digest.
- Fogest 6y ago
  I use FreshRSS which is similar to tt-rss. I really think I should turn on email digests in it because I often find myself forgetting to check my reader some days and then it feels cumbersome to try and "catch-up" with the feeds. I actually really like the idea of being able to convert newsletters into RSS feeds. I have a decent amount of newsletter I currently get and for a lot of them the only reason I have them in newsletter form is because they offered no RSS option. So if I wanted to stay up to date one of my only options was newsletters.
smoe 6y ago
I kinda abandoned email as a tool of communication long ago and just use it to centralize slow notifications. Slow meaning, things I kind of like or want to know about eventually but not important enough to show a distracting notification on screen. Having them filtered gives me a way to more or less easily check in every now and then what is happing on a given topic But for me, the more import aspect is being in charge when to use a tool than what the tool is and having habits around it.

syoc 6y ago

RSS being pull and not push is a great feature IMO. You check up on your feeds when you want to, if you never do it might not really be worth your time or you might not enjoy it. If you really want some kind of reminder then some readers like tt-rss can send daily digest.

Fogest 6y ago
I use FreshRSS which is similar to tt-rss. I really think I should turn on email digests in it because I often find myself forgetting to check my reader some days and then it feels cumbersome to try and "catch-up" with the feeds. I actually really like the idea of being able to convert newsletters into RSS feeds. I have a decent amount of newsletter I currently get and for a lot of them the only reason I have them in newsletter form is because they offered no RSS option. So if I wanted to stay up to date one of my only options was newsletters.

smoe 6y ago

I kinda abandoned email as a tool of communication long ago and just use it to centralize slow notifications. Slow meaning, things I kind of like or want to know about eventually but not important enough to show a distracting notification on screen. Having them filtered gives me a way to more or less easily check in every now and then what is happing on a given topic But for me, the more import aspect is being in charge when to use a tool than what the tool is and having habits around it.