The daily barage of links, feeds, and e-mail sites can become overwhelming. In this episode, David and Katie talk about managing the the daily flood of data using RSS, Instapaper, and other solutions.
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Another great podcast Katie and David! Thank you.
In addition to many of the tools you mention above, I have found Textcast by Bit Maki (http://www.bitmaki.com/textcast/) indispensable to my work/read flow.
Since I have a 45 minute one-way commute to and from work, it is a great tool to keep up with the many things I long to read in either my RSS or Instapaper cues. It turns my reading into audio that syncs in my iTunes as separate “feed” and “text” casts. I choose the Alex voice as my system voice and “he” actually does a pretty good job of reading my articles to me to and from work.
Thanks again for the topic and the podcast. Rock on!
Lee
I’v been using the free RSS reader “Vienna” and like it.
http://www.vienna-rss.org/
I second John’s choice. I love using Vienna. Never had a problem. Built in browser. Permits you to create groups of news feeds, set your refresh, etc.
I had been hearing about Instapaper, but this podcast was the catalyst to finally get me to try it. What a great service. I also like Katie’s suggestion of integrating Instapaper with Google Reader by subscribing to your Instapaper feed(s). However, I’m finding that I actually like going the other direction. After looking in Reader’s settings, I discovered that Instapaper is one of the “send to” choices. Now, I can send articles to Instapaper from Reader for later reading. I find that this is most useful for partial RSS feeds where I don’t see the full article text in Reader. I like being able to come back to Instapaper later and selecting the “text” version. This seems more efficient in my workflow. Another advantage of Instapaper over Reader is that you can make personal notes for the articles in Instapaper. AFAIK, the only way to do this in Reader is to publicly share the articles with a note.
David/Katie:
I didn’t quite understand how David gets his RSS feeds into google reader from Safari….. is there a bookmarklet or something?
Curt
Instapaper just added an email feature on their Extras page. It’s brand new and beta, but it’s working well for me. It provides a “secret” email address specific to your Instapaper account. It allows you to email links directly to your Instapaper account. Very useful for those of us that don’t have iPhones and want to save articles for later viewing while we’re on the go.
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Love the podcast and have been working my way back through them. Just wanted to let you know that the random SmileOnMyMac product placement in the middle of this episode was a real turnoff. I wouldn’t have cared if it had something to do with the show, but it felt really out of place.
Don’t get me wrong. I do love SmileOnMyMac products. Just not randomly inserted into shows…
yeahreader – http://www.yeahreader.com – also good rss feeds reader
I don’t think this was the episode I was recently listening to, but I still want to share this tip with you guys.
In the episode I was listening to Katie said she doesn’t use the RSS function in Safari.
I’m using it occasionally, because it quite useful for those “temporary” feeds.
Sometimes I’m posting a comment on a blog, where I want to keep track on the comments. If it’s a WordPress blog, practically everything can have it’s own feed. Just add
/feedto the end of a URL to get the feed.I then drag the feed into my Safari menubar. That way I get updates as soon as they occur. (A number next to the bookmark item)
That trick is useful for blogs, forums or support request sites like getsatisfaction.com.
Hope that’s useful for some of you. Thanks for podcasting.
Zettt