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If you can't be bothered to set a reminder, subscribe to the RSS feed, create an ifttt trigger or anything like that... I don't know what to tell you. There's lots of solutions to this predicament. This one's on you.

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I don't think a clearly expressed opinion does warrant the kind of response you gave here. There is little of substance in your comment except questioning the posters character by implying he/she is either lazy or to stupid.

A tip on how to use IFTTT quickly and easily for this particular task would probably be a more constructive response. I for one don't know how to use IFTTT to reliably detect changes in any webpage, I thougt it was mostly for different api services and the like, as those are the only use-cases I've heard about.

As far as not having to read things twice, draft and final, I'd have to lean towards @sqldba's position.

There is also an interesting middleground named Evolving Publication where the author publishes section by section, and the RSS feed informs you whenever a new section/chapter is added to the article:

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EvolvingPublication.html

So the RSS feed is not per article, but per article part.

That is interesting, ta, although more work for the author.

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