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The limitation with all these systems is the lack of filters (where I can group all messages that match a filter into a folder). It's common to support grouping feeds into folders, but I want to have a folder of covid-related articles, and one of australian climate policy etc. Feeds are often a jumble of messages on different topics (which is quite reasonable).

Feedwrangler had a very primitive version of this but anyway it's end-of-lifed.*

NetNewsWire used to have excellent filtering but it's been rewritten without them. I use ReadKit on the mac because it does have pretty good filtering. Its own rewrite doesn't have that feature yet, and sharing the filters between platforms will be a future feature. But at the moment, as far as I can tell, it's my only option.

* The developer gave everyone a year's notice and arranged a transfer mechanism to another feed service. Pretty responsible!

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This is one of the reasons why I find it most convenient to use an RSS feed to email project instead of an online reader.

Since the messages are "just email" you can filter, tag, and process them with .forward/.procmailrc, or your google filters.

I put together a CLI of my own to do the fetching, but there are a whole bunch of them out there and to be honest you probably don't need much complexity - beyond a couple of simple filters, and include/exclude regular expressions.

This is why I liked Yahoo Pipes[1] - you could give it an RSS feed, and then transform it based on filters, combine it with other sources, etc.

So you could take an RSS feed from a site, and filter it to just articles with a certain tag.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes

That is neat.

I've been moving my reading consumables to email for the past 2 years for indexing, categorizing and its been very stable. I'm going to try this out.

Thanks!

Really interesting. I’ve been slowly spending pandemic years moving as much out of email as possible.

I did realize a year ago I should still have things in email and forward them from there. So for newsletters and general marketing emails, I have them come to two of my emails before forwarding them to https://stoopinbox.com. I see feed readers are beginning to accept better newsletter and email features.

I also like YouTube to be in a central feed reader too. Mostly to stop myself from spending more time on it than I’d like to. And YouTube’s playlist organization is a pain for me. There’s no way to search between your own playlists on mobile. So my obsessive organizing ends up having lots of duplicate playlists.

I haven’t looked much into feed readers. I got Inoreader’s paid tier. The second paid tier when it was on sale. It has filtering. No idea how good it is.

I also mostly care about filtering as well. Patterns and categorizing things is a love for me. I need to spend a bit of spare time on figuring it all out. Especially before Inoreader renewal comes up.

I haven’t yet figured out which mobile or desktop app to use for feed reading though. Do I use Inoreader directly or something that syncs with it. Not sure if the filtering works if syncing.

Regardless, do you have any opinion on any mobile feed readers? Are you using the old Readkit on desktop still?

Yes I'm using the old readkit on desktop and Reeder on mobile, but if Innoreader works I'll switch to it.

Have you tried Inoreader (Pro)?

Thanks, I’ll give it a look.

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