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You know what makes a damn good reader? Gmail. Setup a script that parses RSSAtom feeds and then email the URLs to a Gmail account. Add the title of the post as
by 0x445442 3y ago
You know what makes a damn good reader? Gmail. Setup a script that parses RSSAtom feeds and then email the URLs to a Gmail account. Add the title of the post as the subject and add hashtags after the URL in the body. Then you can use GMail’s search to search on hash tags. Also, your script can add other metadata to the email which can be used to apply Gmail labels. If you’re really ambitious the script can use the readability library and email html content so that you never need to leave Gmail to read feeds.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoAs far as I know Gmail, it lacks significant basic features of a good feed-reader. Like a button to mark all unread items as read, a function to automatically move to the next category/folder/filter with unread messages. Sure, I could do this manually, but that would be slower, more complicated and thus defeat the purpose of using a dedicated app for this job. And this leaves all the more advanced features, like sharing, different optimized views, all those little details which make a specialized app superior to a specialized app from another domain. Personally, I would love for Gmail (or some other mail-app) to be customizable enough to serve as a feed-reader AND mail-reader, and any other job we can fit into it. But somehow people are very focused on making apps only for single domains, and don't leak them to others.
- 0x445442 3y agoGmail allows you to mark an email as read.
- 0x445442 3y agoGmail allows you to mark an email as read.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoNot with one button. You must select the mails first, then you can mark them.