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Comment by boardwaalk | Hacker News Reader

I'm surprised rss2email (or something similar) has hardly been mentioned. Getting your RSS in your email makes a surprising amount of sense. You can filter, organize and archive it. You can search it. You can mark it read or put flags on it. You can forward it to friends if that's your thing. And it works everywhere you have an email app.

I also have small scripts that run as cron jobs and scrape a few Twitter feeds and a few subreddits and email new items to me.

Having all my updates in one place I can consume in one place when I want is just great.

I'm not sure what I'd get out of Winds looking at it.

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The thing I most hated about RSS readers was they treated it like email (or even old-style newsgroups), assuming you cared how many articles you hadn't read.

Nope, most of it's news (whether tech or some other kind), and the social media stream kind of access (where you care about what's current, but if you missed it so what) seems a lot more appropriate.

I mean, if you want to support that kind of view, you could certainly just purge anything more than 10 articles old or whatever from the RSS feed from your inbox.

We probably just use these things differently though. Like, if a product I'm interested in gets reviewed I want to see that -- I don't want to have to go search the website later because maybe it was reviewed but I wasn't hovering over my RSS feed the hour or two it was the top story.

Basically, it completely replaces the website's front page for me, and if I have to go there I've failed.

Interesting. I'm on the total opposite end... I'd rather have "email2rss" for turning all the spam/newsletters into a feed. I don't want _any_ of that content entering my email.

I recommend Kill the Newsletter[1]. It gives you an email address that you can send all your subscriptions into, and an RSS feed to consume it.

[1]: https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/

Couldn't you just filter those newsletters into a folder? I'm not sure how making it RSS is materially different.

Hardly anything I described here goes directly into my inbox, to be clear. That would drive me crazy (I rarely have more than a dozen emails in my inbox -- all things that I need to somewhat immediately need to be act on).

Sure. Probably would work well with name+newsletter@example.com type filters.

I just like to keep them separate, I suppose. And, I just naturally prefer to consume news through RSS feeds. Every newsletter or RSS feed I read is ephemeral, disposable, and I probably only ever read 1% of the content (if that). Email (for me) tends to be the near opposite, and anything I can do to keep the noise and cruft out of my email, I'll do.

never used it before but I imagine it wouldn't work well with hundreds of updates everyday? Plus centralized feed management is easier with an RSS service like Feedly. I don't want to scour through all my mails for my feeds, as if it wasn't hard enough keeping with mailing lists already.

It would work fine, mail servers and clients are damn comfortable handling those numbers.

I suppose it'd be easier if you never want to have any files to back up, but I already do (emails themselves, git repos, various databases) so storing the rss2email configuration is nothing extra for me.

You can setup filters to put the stuff from RSS in whatever folders you want. By feed itself. By author. By keyword. Just like any other email. I use Sieve with Dovecot/Pigeonhole but any decent hosted mail service should provide something similar.

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