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> The only difference is that Newsboat is actively maintained while Newsbeuter isn't.

this is the best feed reader i've ever used, very fast and perfectly usable without mouse.

Just a heads-up, Newsbeuter is no longer maintained and carries somewhat serious vulnerabilities including CVE-2017-12904 and CVE-2017-14500. I recommend you use Newsboat instead. It's an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter that has fixed those vulnerabilities and added new features.

I use Liferea. At some point in the past I used Newsboat. I don’t like Akregator, there are just so many bugs in it and it isn’t actively maintained. Feed Reader and RSS Guard use so much memory and bandwidth that they’re not worth considering. RSSOwl isn’t actively maintained (and runs Java).

However, I recommend Newsblur on the web for most users. It’s a great experience and you can read the stream from all your devices. If you want a client application, then go with Liferea – simply because it’s still in actively in development and have been for years.

Disclaimer: I’ve contributed code to several of these applications.

Ich habe zum Großteil alle meine YouTube Subscriptions dort drin, einige Reddit (eher nicht Nachrichten fokussiert) & Hackernews feeds, aber auch gängige Tech-Nachrichten wie Heise. Dazu kommen dann noch eine Hand voll verstreute kleinere Feeds dazu, wie etwa Sitzungsinformation aus dem Gemeinderat oder Comics. Im Großen und Ganzen sind das etwas über 100 Feeds. Ist auf meiner Seite nicht wirklich geordnet oder kategorisiert, effektiv also nur eine große Liste.

Im Durschnitt schaue ich so 2-3mal am Tag drüber. Je nach Feed schau ich mir jeden Eintrag an, oder auch nur etwa jeden 100. Eintag. Bei den anderen wird der Titel überflogen und dann direkt als gelesen markiert. Eine gute Filterung fällt mir hier schwer, da das eine sehr gründliche Kategorisierung von jedem einzelnen Eintrag benötigen würde.

Das ganze läuft aktuell über tinytinyrss und lass ich mir lokal über newsboat anzeigen. Mit ein paar Shortcuts, etwa das direkte öffnen von YouTube-Videos in mpv, lässt sich damit ganz gut arbeiten.

Ich hatte vorher viele der News über Twitter bezogen, fand das aber eher ungeignet für Nachrichten weswegen ich alles vor langer Zeit auf RSS umgestellt hatte. Aber es geht mir ähnlich, dass ein paar Sachen auf RSS fehlen. Als Wochenend-Projekt habe ich mir dann ein Tool gebaut, welches WebHooks in ein RSS-Feed wandelt. Ziel wäre es dann kleine Tools für die entsprechenden fehlenden Inhalte zu erstellen und damit zu verbinden. Ist noch recht minimal und nicht wirklich im Einsatz, aber ich habe Hoffnung.

I believe that newsboat has integrations with Tiny Tiny RSS to keep them synced across machines as well giving you the option to browse your RSS feeds via the web. So you can set up TTRSS (like I've done for my sweetheart) and then configure newsboat to sync with it.

Alternatively, for myself, I use <code>rss2email</code> to pull my RSS feeds into my inbox, reducing the syncing problem to one that IMAP has already solved for me, and keeps read-status in sync. There's also no new UI to learn, just the same mutt/claws interface I use for my email). As a bonus, all my email filtering power works helps winnow RSS, too, removing a lot of articles that I know won't interest me.

Add .rss after the URL. e,g, https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/9smwrx/i_read_the_news_so_you_dont_have_to_market_news/.rss Use that as the basis of what you want to do. https://newsboat.org/ might be an option to handle it.

You are not weird, don't worry, archive.org needs people like you!

What rss reader do you use right now? By "copy" do you mean that you select the whole text and save it into an md file?

If that's the case, take a look at newsboat: depending on your rss feeds, you can do that in a simpler way by pressing "s" to save the article you are currently reading into a txt file in a preset path (it's then pretty easy to create a macro to export to md or any other format), you can actually save all the articles in a feed if you are truly weird archivist ;-)

https://newsboat.org/releases/2.26/docs/newsboat.html#save

Newsboat is a command line based RSS reader! I've never used it but I've heard good things about it! I've heard about it through Bryan Jenks so maybe check his videos and blog posts on it!

I think you can set a macro in newsboat to an external command/script. Check out this wiki page. I don't know if it can be automated though.

if you want to download or play podcasts look at podboat (included with newsboat)

you configure it inside .newsboat/config

>download-path "/home/podcasts/%n"
download-filename-format "%F_%H-%M-%S_%t.%e"
##player "/usr/bin/mpv"
podlist-format "%4i [%6dMB/%6tMB] [%5p %%] [%12K] %-20S %b > %u "

checkout https://newsboat.org/releases/2.25/docs/newsboat.html

Get Newsboat (a console RSS reader) and the RSS feeds for your search(es) and seller(s).

Newsboat has a built in feature allowing you to use proxies: https://newsboat.org/releases/2.12/docs/newsboat.html#proxy-type

Make sure to use socks5h instead of socks5 if you want to use RSS feeds that are hidden services.

You only need to write: proxy-type socks5h proxy 127.0.0.1:9050 In your newsboat config and make sure that tor is running in the background.

Hey, thanks for following up! I'm happy that you're receptive to feedback, imo RSS is one of the best ways to do things like this (check out newsboat if you haven't yet, you can even use it for youtube subscriptions!).

I also have a few suggestions for content that I think would make your blog stand out. Of course, they're only opinions, and I'm a relatively new follower so you might already know or be doing these things.

• Do a deep dive, go for things from the user manual that many people don't know about. Even something as simple as :h v_g_ctrl-a or :h i_ctrl-o can be a lifesaver, and people often don't know it exists. Maybe look through vimways.org for things that can be turned into small tips.

• Discuss things that are unique to Vim, like persistent undo, or being able to control undo granularity with manual undo points (:h i_ctrl-g_u, I like adding this as an insert mode mapping for punctuation in markdown).

• Perhaps add useful related Vim help pages at the bottom of each tip, so people can read more if they want (like a list of :h commands).

• Don't focus on plugins or replicating IDEs, because that's what most blogs focus on and you won't stand out.

I use newsboat along with w3m to fetch & read all my feeds. Newsboat is a terminal app & I know terminal apps aren't for everyone, but it works perfectly for me & I never have any problems....

> to refresh them every 10 minutes and get notified for new ones

I usually check feeds every week since none of my feeds are really urgent. I delete and purge everything I don't want to save. The the only notification I see is how many articles are unread when I reload-all at the start of a week.

> slowly start using flags

I honestly don't know what I could use these for. Since my organization of feeds relies way more on tags and it works fine for me.

> the tag in parentheses is automatically the first tag

Did you modify the formatting language to do this? Pretty neat :)

> creating some kind of archive script for the future

Most of my feeds are things I read/watch/hear once and then forget about. If there's anything I want to save in full I save it in a directory for articles to revisit and if I just want to save the URL I bookmark it. Idk if you know, but you can use the bookmark-cmd to execute that archive script.