04-05-2015, 08:00 PM
(04-05-2015, 07:41 PM)Bring4th_Plenum Wrote: I've been using blogtrottr even since Google Reader shut down a few years ago. It's not an rss reader per se, but it converts rss feeds, and sends them as an email to your chosen address. You can choose to get individual emails for each news story (not the best idea!), or you can have the service aggregate stories on a set period - like every 4 hours, or every 12 hours. It's my main information hub, and I have separate labels for the emails that come in via blogtrottr.
I never thought I'd find anything better than Google Reader to manage my information inputs, and yet blogtrottr + gmail provides an even handier interface imo.
I use Feedly. I was absolutely devastated when Google shut down Google Reader. One of my favorite things about Google Reader was the recommendations feature. I also didn't like the idea of transferring all my articles to the new reader.
I don't think I've heard of blogtrottr. I personally like the convenience of being able to choose which articles I want to save as tags. I don't think that blogtrottr would be good for me for that reason. But that seems to be fixed with the labels function you mentioned.
What I can't stand is subscribing to a website that has about 20-30 articles a day. That happened to me for years with Lifehacker, and I said to myself, I can't take this. And there's no way to subscribe to individual things like, for example, productivity. I decided to give up on it, and that freed up a good deal of my time. I subscribe to just a few websites now that churn out very few articles a week.
How does the labels feature work? Feedly is very similar to Google Reader.