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I've been using RSS-to-email since forever. I now run my own RSS-to-email service. I filter (almost all) of them into folders that don't notify and then they a
by kevincox 2y ago
I've been using RSS-to-email since forever. I now run my own RSS-to-email service.
I filter (almost all) of them into folders that don't notify and then they are there ready to read across all of my devices that are logged into my email.
I find that email clients are quite suited to RSS reading. They have folders, searching, filtering and unread/read/deleted tracking that is synced cross-device. And for the few feeds that I want to be "urgent" it is easy to send them to my inbox.
I have written about my workflow in the past:
https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/ https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/
https://kevincox.ca/2023/06/27/decade-of-rss-via-email/ https://kevincox.ca/2023/06/27/decade-of-rss-via-email/
- jonwinstanley 2y agoFunnily enough, I've recently been looking at email-to-RSS to clear some newsletters out of my inbox :-)
- kevincox 2y agoI know. Everyone is different and there is nothing wrong with that. I don't think RSS-to-email is for everyone. And I definitely don't have (most) feeds going to my inbox. That would be far too much. The vast majority of my feeds go to a "Not Important" folder. I also find it interesting that running an RSS-to-Email service I have noticed that we both fetch feeds from and send mail to kill-the-newsletter.com. I would be curious to know what their use cases are.
- jjav 2y agoYes! My favorite RSS feed reader is mutt (and the email ecosystem around it like procmail). With email I already have infinitely flexible filtering, sorting, on-the-fly modification of headers and content, and a reader with best in class threading and TUI. So I use RSS to email to inject all the RSS content into this ecosystem and inherit all the goodness of email for RSS as well. (This is how I follow HN, for instance.)