Missing RSS in OS X Mountain Lion (mail)

[Gemütlichkeit]

bummed about this. I thought they only removed it from safari.

this really doesn't make sense

 

[markpaul0]

Save as activation

In System Preferences->General there is a checkbox for "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps." deselect this so applications don't open up all the previously open windows. This does work for Pages and such. It may be broken for one or 2 apps.

As for the versions thing, well I want a "Save As" option back. And I need to see a better UI for the revision stuff before I decide how I like it. And more information on how it may do automatic cleanup of old version information or if that's something that will clog the disk if you forget to clean it up manually.

If you hold down the alt/option button when in an application (pages for example) the "Save as" option comes up. There are different options in both the FILE and WINDOW tabs when you press the Option key, depending on which program you're in.

Hope that solves at least one problem

 

[sash]

Just tried to subscribed to my blog's system activity log -- to no avail, obviously. No built-in RSS support?! C'mon...

 

[TwoBytes]

I think it's crazy how some of Apples support pages use RSS and they have removed native features in the OS to get updates!

 

[TwoBytes]

(or the RSS snippet). It was essentially a piece of email - it would sit there until you deleted it.

Yep, that was what RSS was to me in my mail box - Instant news that belonged in mail. Plenty of us think and use RSS this way. There's a great rss app that will take your google reader feeds and push selected ones to your phone which is my alternative for ios. Reeder for osx

 

[Ledgem]

I think it's just that you have your workflow set up one way, and I'm not sure there's a way to replicate that now. I think you can do more-or-less what you're wanting, but it's just handled in different ways.

I think this is really what it comes down to. Now that I've been using Reeder for a few days, I'll admit that it feels faster to go through newsfeeds as compared with how it was in Mail. I don't save articles all that often, so the inability to do so isn't huge; and there's that Evernote tie-in that allows me to do so if I really want to.

Mail is also faster (or at least, it seems that way). Whether that's due to the removal of RSS functionality or not, I can't say, but I can't complain.

I'm still adjusting, but I'm coming to feel that I prefer it this way over how it was in Mail.

 

[keithlamont]

Oh, thank you! Yes, they were all there. I've copied them and put them in a folder on my desktop. Can you make a recommendation now about what to do and how to import them?

Soulflower, you can open the Info.plist files with TextEdit, and in each you will see the address for the RSS Feed. Copy it, and use it to resubscribe to the feed in any news reader.

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Using the resources at ifttt.com can restore some of the RSS in Mail functionality. Select the Feed Channel, and there are recipes for forwarding new items from an RSS feed to an email account. A bookmarklet to automate the process would be the icing on the cake.

 

[aperantos]

Are there any RSS clients available that can import RSS entry data from Mail?

I have several feeds in Mail (on Leopard) where I keep the full post content, and would like to retain access to this in whatever new client I end up having to use.

Thanks.

 

[Ledgem]

Are there any RSS clients available that can import RSS entry data from Mail?

I have several feeds in Mail (on Leopard) where I keep the full post content, and would like to retain access to this in whatever new client I end up having to use.

Thanks.

I don't think so... but I believe you should be able to export each RSS entry as a PDF or RTF. It's not ideal, but at least you can save your archived news that way.

 

[Ledgem]

Just thought I'd give a quick update about Reeder behavior to those who are interested. If you "star" an article, Reeder keeps it even beyond the time period to purge items that have already been read. I can't say whether or not it keeps them indefinitely, but I can't see an option for discarding those items... my oldest starred item is close to two months old, my purge time is set to two weeks, and articles that have not been starred that are older than two weeks are indeed being cleared out. That bodes well for archiving.

 

[lkgeo]

Reeder, Instapaper folders, & DevonThink...

Thanks for the very helpful info on this thread. I just moved to ML and am transitioning to a true RSS reader (Reeder, for now).

I haven't figured out a way to approximate my previous workflow:
(a) review news in Apple Mail via feeds or (for sources without RSS) news via email.
(b) if I wanted to read the entire article, I'd open it in Firefox.
(c) after reading it, if I wanted to save it I'd use Instapaper folder bookmarks in FF to route it to an appropriate Instapaper folder. Folder contents then go via RSS to an equivalent folder (group) in DevonThink Pro, its end destination, where there's material from a lot of different sources, organized by topic.

I see how to get an article from Reeder to the default Instapaper folder via sharing. Does anyone know if it's possible -- from Reeder or any other Mac-based reader -- to send an article to a specific Instapaper folder, or directly to a DevonThink group? (I don't want unreviewed feeds going directly to DT, just select articles.) Maybe I'm going to end up with a browser-based reader, because I can use the Instapaper folder bookmarks from there...

Any other suggestions for reviewing, reading and selectively storing a range of news articles (everything from NY Times to ACM articles): alternatives to RSS? Alternatives to Instapaper that might work?

Thanks (sometimes I wonder if all of this is really improving productivity! : )