Understanding RSS and Newsletters#
I knew nothing about RSS before, until I read diygod's article Say No to Newsletters, which gave me some basic understanding of RSS and Newsletters. So I consulted Claude and got the following answer:
Although I still have a limited understanding, my understanding is that RSS is a user-initiated subscription mechanism, while Newsletters tend to passively receive information.
Integration of RSS with other software#
I only started using blogs this year. For some blog articles that I like, I would save them using omnivore. Every time I want to see updates from the bloggers, I need to open their websites or clients and go into their blogs. At first, it wasn't too troublesome because I only followed a few bloggers and clicking a few times was not a big deal. But as I started following more bloggers, this behavior became cumbersome and more time was wasted on interaction.
RSS solves this problem. Here, I have to mention another amazing plugin developed by diygod, RSSHub, which makes discovering RSS feeds more elegant. I can subscribe to feeds with one click and import them into Reeder, and the high-quality articles will be collected in omnivore. With obsidian's automatic synchronization, I can directly reference them in obsidian at any time, forming an elegant closed loop of internet information.
This is just the initial application for now, and there is more to be developed. But I have to thank all the experts for their efforts, which have made me realize that even in the internet age, we can break free from the calculations and constraints of big data, and focus more on obtaining the information we want, while discarding the distractions of complex information.