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Comment by Daunk | Hacker News Reader

I really like RSS as well, but my main problem is always the RSS "viewer". I haven't found a single one I like. I'd like to just add a bunch of RSS feeds and set "tags" that I'm interested in and get a notification about. Let's say I care about "Telegram" if any of my RSS feeds mention "Telegram" or use "Telegram" as a tag; I want to be notified. And I guess that requires a RSS viewer running on the computer and not a website based RSS viewer. But yeah, not found a single good RSS viewer yet.

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"Newsboat", a command line RSS reader, definitely has keyword searches and a ton of other functionality for complex filtering and grouping: https://newsboat.org/

I haven't found a good Android based RSS reader that does that, though I haven't really looked.

That's where I think browsers are failing us (slightly). For me the best way to use RSS would be directly along bookmarks. The browser would should next to the title the number of unread posts and that's it! That would be amazingly simple to use and efficient.

Firefox has (had?) that. Called live bookmarks.

Dropped when the Firefox dev team said rss is “old and too hard to maintain”

True super talents over there at Firefox.

It didn't keep the unread counter of posts which is crucial for a good RSS experience

I don't know your background, but if you're interested hacking on an open source, locally run RSS client, I built a reader that should be able to support this fairly easily.

https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook

I could imagine adding a collector feed or folder that just watches for keywords in the title or perhaps content.

Anyways, if you have an interest or would just like to explore what that might look like, open an issue. It's mostly feature complete for me, but I poke at it every now and then.

I prefer to use webpages as much as possible. I liked google Reader, and once they killed I migrated to https://theoldreader.com/

I have recently been trying to figure out something like that as well. The best idea I have come up with so far is to convert the RSS feeds into an email feed with rss2email and then filter the email feed.

I wrote a simple rss2email application, which includes the ability to only send emails for feed-entries matching/not-matching a given term.

I find it useful for simple filtering, but of course it being email you can also filter at the receiving side, as well as the sending side.

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/

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