How to Automatically Deliver Customized Newsletters From RSS Feeds With Platypush

An updated version of this article is available on the Platypush blog.

I’ve always been a supporter of well-curated newsletters. They give me an opportunity to get a good overview of what happened in the fields I follow within a span of a day, a week or a month. However, not all the newsletters fit this category. Some don’t think three times before selling email addresses to 3rd-parties — and within the blink of an eye your mailbox can easily get flooded with messages that you didn’t request. Others may sign up your address for other services or newsletters as well, and often they don’t often much granularity to configure which communications you want to receive. Even in the best-case scenario, the most privacy-savvy user may still think twice before signing up for a newsletter — you’re giving your personal email address to someone else you don’t necessarily trust, implying “yes, this is my address and I’m interested in this subject”. Additionally, most of the newsletters spice up their URLs with tracking parameters, so they can easily measure user engagement — something you may not necessarily be happy with. Moreover, the customization junkie may also have a valid use case for a more finely tuned selection of content in his newsletter — you may want to group some sources together into the same daily/weekly…