Return Of The RSS

Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful.

I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself.

• Link: My Feedly RSS Feed

Feedly

RSS feed subscription management

Features:

• Keyword alerts.
• Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url.
• Notation and highlighting support (a bit like Evernote).
• Search and filtering across large numbers of feeds / content.
• IFTTT, Zapier, Buffer and Hootsuite integration.
• Built in save / share functionality (that I only use when I’m on the website).
• Backup feeds to Dropbox.
• Very fast, regardless of the fact that I’m in Australia - which often impacts the performance of apps / sites that tend to be hosted on AWS in the US as the latency is so high.
• Article de-duplication is currently being developed I believe, so I’m looking forward to that!
• Easy manual import, export and backup (no vendor lock-in is important to me).
• Public sharing of your Feedly feeds (we’re getting very meta here!).

Reeder

A (really) beautiful and fast iOS / macOS client

• The client apps aren’t cheap but damn they’re good quality, I much prefer them over the standard Feedly apps.
• Obviously supports Feedly as a backend but there are many other source services you can use along side each other.
• I save articles using Reeder’s clip to Evernote functionality… a lot.
• Sensible default keyboard shortcuts (or at least for me they felt natural YMMV of course).
• Good customisable ‘share with’ options.
• Simple, well designed UX.
• Easy manual import an export just like Feedly.