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Funny timing - I just switched all my email newsletter subscriptions that I used to read on Gmail Web to Inoreader. The reason was fairly simple - I wanted a b
by sherlock_h 4y ago
Funny timing - I just switched all my email newsletter subscriptions that I used to read on Gmail Web to Inoreader.
The reason was fairly simple - I wanted a better way to organize my newsletters and make it feel more “reading list” like than “task list” like. On email, unopened newsletters always felt like tasks.
- kevincox 4y agoMy simple solution is to filter them all into a "News" folder that doesn't notify. Then I can just open it whenever I have some spare time.
- kshay 4y agoAgreed—I love RSS, but don’t really see “organizing newsletters” as its killer app, or experience “newsletters come via email” as a pain point. Filters seem to serve basically the same purpose.
- kevincox 4y agoYeah, I see RSS and newsletters as largely equivalent technologies. The have minor technical differences but 99% of the read differences are social. Pro Feeds: 1. Once you subscribe the publisher has no way to contact you. Email relies on the publisher being honest. 2. Provides some history (or full history with archiving/pagination atom extensions) Pro Newsletter: 3. Push based system by default (Feeds can use WebSub but it isn't that common). 4. ~everyone already has it set up. At the end of the day they both transmit blobs of HTML to you with some minimal metadata.