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I guess my problem with email newsletters is that they show up in my email client, alongside other emails from real people. I really don’t want them there.

I think I would like newsletters if I had a separate system just for them. Not just a different inbox within my email client, but a different program altogether, so they occupy a different headspace.

I’ve used https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ a bit and I think it’s a great service, but the resulting feeds feel distinctly “non-native,” like the feeling of running a Windows program in Mac or Linux with Wine.

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> I think I would like newsletters if I had a separate system just for them.

You've basically described a RSS aggregator.

Yes, the problem is most of these newsletters aren't available as RSS feeds. That's why I brought up Kill the Newsletter.

Newsblur (saas or self hosted) gives each user a random email address to which they can forward emails and have them presented as different sets of feeds depending on sender - so you can read these with the refs of your feeds.

Inoreader does this too.

All substack newsletters have an RSS feed. And many mailchimp ones do too - for this you need to go the page where old versions are archived and look for the “Subscribe” link.

That's exactly the reason that newsletters are effective, though. Objectively, the format is terrible (email is like trying to design for the web in the early 00's when each browser supported an overlapping subset of features), but email grants immediate, unfettered access to you, unmediated by social networks or websites where the author doesn't have total control over your experience.

I’ve not tried it, but check out https://stoopinbox.com

Stoop is awesome! Would definitely recommend.

Am I understanding it right that there’s only mobile clients for stoop? No web client? I don’t want to read newsletters on my phone :/.

There seems to be a web client in beta. Top right of their homepage, the "login" link. You might have to create an account on another device but you certainly seem to be able to use it from the web.

Stratechery offers an RSS feed for subscribers; I subscribe to both because I normally feel the way you do, but I find I read the email more.

I built a service that allows you to read newsletters and RSS feeds on your Kindle: https://omreader.co

I just use a dedicated email address for newsletters. Easy as a separate iOS Mail account, read from the mail app.

Works well and I sort of find it calming having an email address that only gets (so far anyway) a handful of emails a day, that I signed up for. The only problem is it doesn't save your reading place in the email if you navigate to read another email.

For people who use Gmail, you can drag the newsletter out of your Primary tab and into Forums (or any other tab you create), which makes future editions of the newsletter appear there instead of going into your Primary email.

Check it out

Take a tour of HEY

https://youtu.be/UCeYTysLyGI

I wrote https://autosnoozer.com to solve this problem for myself. Give it a try. It helps me batch process my emails (including daily and weekly newsletters)

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