I need very little. Web app that lets me subscribe to the current site with a bookmarklet and shows me a river of news. Don't even need to store read status for posts.
From the publishing site, little is needed. From the reader, a few things I can think of: - Good way to categorize sites; some permit grouping of sites, so I can mark all as read together. Alternatively, tags that apply to multiple can work. - Good keyboard shortcut workflow. - I'll mostly want text in my default top-level view, not all the real estate taken up with a magazine-style or newspaper-like view. I don't mind more once I drill down, but it's not usually pictures that are used to base what I investigate further on. - I'm of mixed opinion when it comes to seeing what I'm "missing" or not specifically searching for. I do use some of each, subscribing to Newsblur (nice one-person project, has mobile app), but spending more time in elfeed (Emacs, search-based view). In the latter, I see less, miss more, but drill down faster and more thoroughly if looking for something. What's missed, is missed because I'm not searching specifically enough to get few enough entries that I'll bother to search it all. For instance, I may tend to search news-tagged with "Ukraine" relatively often. On the other hand, the Guardian posts so many stories that I'll minimize attempts to skim it all, once a couple pages of text go by. If needed, it's still in the search capability later if I decide to go back and look.
I need very little. Web app that lets me subscribe to the current site with a bookmarklet and shows me a river of news. Don't even need to store read status for posts.
ReplyDeleteFrom the publishing site, little is needed. From the reader, a few things I can think of:
ReplyDelete- Good way to categorize sites; some permit grouping of sites, so I can mark all as read together. Alternatively, tags that apply to multiple can work.
- Good keyboard shortcut workflow.
- I'll mostly want text in my default top-level view, not all the real estate taken up with a magazine-style or newspaper-like view. I don't mind more once I drill down, but it's not usually pictures that are used to base what I investigate further on.
- I'm of mixed opinion when it comes to seeing what I'm "missing" or not specifically searching for. I do use some of each, subscribing to Newsblur (nice one-person project, has mobile app), but spending more time in elfeed (Emacs, search-based view). In the latter, I see less, miss more, but drill down faster and more thoroughly if looking for something. What's missed, is missed because I'm not searching specifically enough to get few enough entries that I'll bother to search it all. For instance, I may tend to search news-tagged with "Ukraine" relatively often. On the other hand, the Guardian posts so many stories that I'll minimize attempts to skim it all, once a couple pages of text go by. If needed, it's still in the search capability later if I decide to go back and look.