Setting Up An RSS Feeds Reader Was Actually Easy
I've done so last week, basically the day after I complained about it.
I use Thunderbird as a mail client, and I've had since... many years. Probably more than 10 at this point. Turns out it's pretty easy to use it also as an RSS Reader, and that's what I did. I really don't like adding things to my environment, especially if I'm not sure they'll be useful to me, so using a tool that's already part of my life was nice. Check the options already available to you if you're like me!
I mentioned last week I also wanted to read posts on my Kobo. So far, I've done so exactly once, but I have a system in place: I signed up for Instapaper (which is natively supported on Kobo), then set up this script on my laptop to run as a task scheduled every hour (I'm on Windows, so taskschd.msc does the job for me). Took me installing Go via chocolatey, running go install github.com/kupospelov/feeds-to-instapaper@latest and then I had my .exe ready to be referenced at C:\Users[USER]\go\bin\feeds-to-instapaper.exe. Easy. Just took me a while to figure out exactly everything I'm writing here for posterity. Hopefully this helps someone out.
This means of course that my feeds on Thunderbird and those on Instapaper do not sync. Is it a pain in the ass? Mildly. Is it less of a pain in the ass than setting up a more complicated system? Yes. Greatly. I love it.
As an additional note, RSS Lookup has been great to fetch feeds with no link in sight (I'm loving keeping myself updated on Yasunori Mitsuda's blog!), while Kill The Newsletter seems like a good idea to convert newsletters (of which I follow a bunch) into RSS feeds. For now I'll keep most of my newsletters as is, but in the future... who knows.