Mail was invented for news. Both are inextricably linked. I get mail or news from friends, subscriptions to sites, offers I've signed up too, news of updates of products, news that mountain lion is out (without rss
) it's all one and the same. I choose rss instead of subscriptions to job sites and band news for example.
I really couldn't disagree more. Email is for communication, and what you call news, I call junk mail, and I don't want anything to do with it.
When I want to read news/articles, I'll use a feed reader, and I really recommend spending the $5 on Reeder.
I don't want site updates showing up in mail and alerting me as if an important message has come in.
Separate tasks belong in separate apps. If I'm concentrating on work, my feed reader is closed, but I definitely want to be receiving emails.
Any way to get google reader to email you when a feed is updated?
Most RSS readers can be set on a schedule if you prefer. Personally, I now update manually when I actually have the time for it, rather than checking every 15 minutes (or whatever you set) and having it notify me. Far better to read items in batches than have lots of little distractions breaking your chain of thought throughout the day.
Not so. In Reeder, a feed doesn't show comments. It's a rather sterile approach for rendering web content. Makes so much more sense for RSS to be within a browser. Enough of the multiple screens and having to go back and forth.
Reeder has the option to display the web page rather than the formatted RSS data. I must say, I always wondered who the people were that liked this.
It's far more efficient, and much nicer to read a properly formatted feed than most websites in my opinion. Most page designs push ads and links to other articles on the site, rather than focusing on the content.
Thank you!
I was not able to use this with Safari on my iMac, as I had already upgraded to Mountain Lion and the RSS feeds were all disabled. Luckily I hadn't updated my Macbook Air, so I was able to convert my list to an OPML file from there.
Excellent, I'm glad that worked for you!
Gads, I had 147 rss feeds in Safari. Was I the only one who used it for that, or are a lot of people really unhappy about this?
I used to have over 300 feeds being checked daily, but have now cut that down below 70 and I aim to get it down to about 50 or less. I found that I was actually getting a lot of overlap between sites. (Mac sites in particular seem to all overlap heavily with whatever seems to be the popular app of the week etc.)
Safari (or Mail) was far too inefficient to get through that number of feeds on a daily basis. I was spending more time going through them all than actually reading content. This is why I think Reeder is one of the best apps for it. Content is well formatted and you can quickly scan through new items and mark them off or star/send to Instapaper to read later.
