I don’t, I’ve used Reeder for I think over 10 years and I don’t feel any need to change. Plus I do think there is value in having an rss reader that’s separate from anything else. Mine is mostly a “stream” I skim and dip in and out of, I want it seperate from my read-it-later app (Readwise Reader) and DT (research and storage).
RSS is essential to me but the leading apps feel interchangeable. If Newsblur died, it’d be easy to switch to Inoreader, or whatever.
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Moneydance
Filemaker - I really thought about not updating but I have 170 databases, one with over 3,500 records and another with 1,800. I just couldn’t see spending my retirement years moving all that to something else.
- textxpander
- Keyboard Maestro
- Moom
- 1Password
- Things 3
- Alfred
- Hyperkey app
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Running late here, but anyway …
- Bitwarden (+Vaultwarden)
- UpNote
- Tot
- Beeper
- VS Code (watching Zed closely)
- Superkey
- Rectangle
- Stretchly
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That’s interesting to me as I was just talking to someone about how little I use RSS as it’s just a stream of noise to me unless it’s a highly curated (and less active) source feed. What kind of feeds are you consuming?
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Funny how different people feel about different technology. I have a series of things I do with it:
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Tech. These are a bunch of less active tech sources for programs I use or might use [again] (Devonian Times is one example). Other examples include blogging and commenting devs.
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News. have a kill-the-newsletter send to it from my local newspaper plus a Mac news website and a general tech newspaper (top news only). And the German pendant of the Scientific American.
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A few non-tech sources similar to 1. such as the company where I buy tea.
Generally speaking, I favour RSS over e-mail newsletter. But I think it is important to select a small number of high-value sources. Works best with infrequent publications. When I think about it, I tried it some years back with the Guardian and was quickly overwhelmed.
@DEVONtech_Jim How do you get news?
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Well, for starters…
I have about 200 feeds in Newsblur. Most of my interests and roles in life have some representation. A large majority are infrequently updated personal or small company sites so it’s not too much work to keep up with them. The busier feeds I just arrow key through quickly or glance at and mark all as read. Negative author/tag/keyword filters to cut feeds down to size, too.
I suppose it’s a bit of a hurdle to start, but maintaining this for years has been easy. Anything I was forcing myself to read has long since been filtered, unsubscribed or put in the ignominious “Who Cares” folder.
P.S. I also have some feeds in DT, but they’re for archiving the content. I don’t go in and read them unless something comes up in a search and I want to see what else is related. There’s some overlap between DT feeds and Newsblur feeds.
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I’m trying to think how to write a helpful answer that doesn’t just say “everything”.
I suppose I should preface my answer by saying that I used to be what people would call Very Online. I’ve always read blogs and I used Google Reader until its untimely death.
My feeds nowadays are still maybe 1/2 blogs/newsletters from individuals I like, 1/4 professional stuff (RSS is still used a lot for science news and some journals), 1/4 companies/orgs I like. Basically, if someone publishes semi-regularly and I like it, I will try and find a way to get it into Reeder. I do not want to be going to the website to find stuff (I do keep a folder with a short list of bookmarks from sites that do not have RSS. I never look at it).
As to actual content, it’s a mix of work things and my interests. There’s a lot of science (work and fun), tech news and opinion, sci-fi things, blogs that post about my hobbies, and the many many writers who write things I like. I don’t read all of it, I skim for posts that interest me.
If I find a new site that resonates with me, I stick it in Reeder for a while to see if other content is good too. If it is, I have a new site to read. If it isn’t, I unsubscribe again. And I regularly remove feeds that no longer interest me.
I would say that outside a couple of forums and newsletters that refuse to be RSS, I don’t really read much on the web that didn’t turn up in Reeder.
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I generally just visit certain bookmarked sites and cherry-pick interesting bits and bobs.
- 1Password
- Arc browser
- ChatGPT
- Cursor (VSCode fork with better AI)
- Fastmail
- Perplexity (if Google and ChatGPT had a baby)
- Pocket Casts
What’s holding you up from switching to Zed? I see a good future since they went open-source
Bitwarden
DeepL (closes source)
Ente Authenticator
Perplexity
Lulu
Signal
Anytype
ProtonVpn
Firefox and Brave Browser
Knock knock
Netnews wire
Corona - business accounting; simple and flexible
Agenda - daily notes, information store, task manager
Jump Desktop - remote client support