Replace email newsletters with RSS, get back some control over your attention
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RSS is back, with a bang.
With Facebook’s latest data scandal, like many I seem to get more sensitive about privacy. Also, the time and attention it takes to follow my Facebook and Twitter timeline and read all those newsletters I subscribed to, got simply too much.
In an attempt to gain control over the information I consume–and the time and attention I give it–I logged into Feedly for the first time since long ago.
I deleted all feeds from the past. I crawled my email inbox for newsletters that I read regularly. I thought about websites I visit a lot and could
So for my code and design information what I ended up with:
- HackerNews: I love all stories about “learning”, but spend too much time there. Turns out there is a service to make a feed from a search term: https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
- Twitter: I follow a couple of people intensively, so I was lucky that I TwitRSS gives me a feed per person: https://twitrss.me
- Github Trends: You can get a feed per technology and select a frequency. That is much better than the general weekly mail I got before: http://github-trends.ryotarai.info/
- Dribbble: To follow the latest design niceties, thereis an excelent unofficial RSS feed: https://dribbble.hittter.com/
- Reddit: To get a feed for your favorite subreddit, just add .rss to it. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev.rss
I did not find good solutions for the following sites:
- IndieHackers
- Quora
- DesignerNews
I know there are many services that convert webpages to RSS or use IFTTT, but I prefer services that do the heavy lifting.
Which services or feeds do you use to get back control over information consumption?