Giving RSS feeds another go, again again. Inoreader seems nice. It's good so far for a few blogs and YouTube subscriptions.
News sites seem more difficult though. I want a few headlines maybe throughout the day, not a notification every time a celebrity farts or a sports star scores a point.
Anyone know a good less-is-more news feed solution? Preferably Irish news.
maybe I need to find a few blogs or similar that just report on areas I'm interested in, rather than relying on mainstream outlets.
and/or some way to wrap up ~8hrs worth of stories into a single digest/summary article.
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Inoreader's 'rules' might solve the problem of too many notifications.
Basically, I'll put my busy news feeds into a folder, and add a rule to mark everything in there as read on arrival. I can still click through to see the headlines, but I'm not pestered with "new thing!!" notifications all throughout the day.
It's a 'Pro' feature on Inoreader though. Nearly €100/yr! I'll see how I get on with the 14-day trial.
It does seem a nice platform.
Continued adventures in RSS...
So far so happy with Inoreader! With rules and filters to mark things as read if they don't (or do) meet certain criteria, I can subscribe to all sorts of feeds without getting bombarded with too much stuff in the main feed. While still being able to click into a particular feed if I want to, say, browse the headlines on TheJournal.ie or BBC, etc. They're there – just not all up in my face about it.
Keyword monitoring works great too.
I was able to switch off all unread-counts, badges, and alerts, too. And everything's just listed chronologically, rather than algorithmically pushing click-bate at me.
Just in the last few days, I think this is actually becoming one of my favourite things. Reducing a lot of noise and distraction without cutting off all news and media altogether.
Michael Flanagan