For anyone not using rss and wondering whether to get into it and how, this is what worked for me over the past year.
I used to have 4-6 sites I would check regularly. A couple occasionally had a news update article I liked reading. A couple were “firehose” sites for a hobby which produced 4-20 articles per day. Hard to keep up with on web without feeling overwhelmed.
I got NetNewsWire which has a good sync system across machines. Then I put the occasional news articles in one folder and the firehose feeds in another.
(If a site has no obvious rss, paste in the homepage. NetNewsWire seems to figure it out)
It now takes 2-3 min per day to look over the firehouses. Can scan, read the ones I want, mark the rest as done.
For the news/essay sites, no longer any need to check a site periodically to see “is there an update?” It all just comes in when published.
In a world where habit transformation is hard, this one stuck. Consistently has led me to read more of the stuff I wanted to keep up with, while spending less time and energy around actually finding it.
I used to have 4-6 sites I would check regularly. A couple occasionally had a news update article I liked reading. A couple were “firehose” sites for a hobby which produced 4-20 articles per day. Hard to keep up with on web without feeling overwhelmed.
I got NetNewsWire which has a good sync system across machines. Then I put the occasional news articles in one folder and the firehose feeds in another.
(If a site has no obvious rss, paste in the homepage. NetNewsWire seems to figure it out)
It now takes 2-3 min per day to look over the firehouses. Can scan, read the ones I want, mark the rest as done.
For the news/essay sites, no longer any need to check a site periodically to see “is there an update?” It all just comes in when published.
In a world where habit transformation is hard, this one stuck. Consistently has led me to read more of the stuff I wanted to keep up with, while spending less time and energy around actually finding it.