I will admit that I’ve been tempted a number of times to investigate one or more of the web-based alternatives that have been making the rounds these last few days, but I was strong and resisted! My new system is working, and working well, thank you. Granted, I’ve developed a bit of a Instapaper backlog now (who doesn’t have a reading pile backlog, I ask you!), but it is growing slower than before: fewer items are added and more items are actually read and pulled off the stack as well. Interesting items are scanned and if it looks like something I should read, it gets added to Instapaper. My current practice is to open RSSOwl once or twice a day (and some days I forget), click the “update all feeds” button, and then scan the headlines. Since Switching to RSSOwl, I’ve broken the habitual but low-benefit activity of sifting and starring through news items, a practice that did little more than generate a endless list of items to go back to while providing me with little more increased awareness that whatever I could glean from scanning the headlines.
It is entirely local, meaning that you can only access it from a single PC.įor me, these are good things, although I understand that for others they may be dealbreakers. It has a slightly retro UI that is familiar to anyone that started reading news with usenet. RSSOwl is an native application that runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Soon after Google announced that they were discontinuing Google Reader, I switched to RSSOwl as my newsreader.
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