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Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by polm23 » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 3:18 PM UTC

Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
kill-the-newsletter.com

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Post by ChrisLTD » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

I love this service. I use it to subscribe to a few newsletters in Feedly that don't offer RSS feeds.

The paid versions of Feedly and Feedbin also offer this functionality directly if you prefer to pay for the privilege of consuming newsletters in your RSS reader.

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Post by firloop » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

Definitely a great tool. I used to use it but now mostly use the Newsblur native version of this feature. I blogged about my specific stack for reading newsletters because it takes a surprising amount of configuration to read newsletters in a streamlined way. Once you get a Gmail filter set up for the big services like Substack it becomes pretty painless though.

https://ylukem.com/blog/how-to-keep-up-with-newsletters

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Post by acco102 » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

Use https://mailnesia.com/ or https://tempr.email/ and rss.

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Post by unicornporn » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

I use this: https://notifier.in/

Same thing, works well. Newsletters are plague.

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Post by ghaff » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC

unicornporn wrote: post #5

I use this: https://notifier.in/ Same thing, works well. Newsletters are plague.

I wouldn't call them a plague but it's easy to drown in stuff being pushed out via email. So you end up filtering and it all goes into a folder you never look at.

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Post by mikece » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 4:52 PM UTC

Why Atom instead of RSS? I understand the differences between the two formats[1] but I am curious what it is about Atom that caused the maker of this project to choose it over RSS.

[1] http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-betwe...

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Post by VWWHFSfQ » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 4:53 PM UTC

What's wrong with email newsletters? I actually like them quite a bit.

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Post by raybb » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 4:55 PM UTC

I've used this a good bit and struggled with two things:

1. Newsletter formatting sometimes gets broken and comes out ugly

2. For longer newsletters or digests I sometimes skim too fast since I'm used to having single articles in rss feed. I guess this is more a comment on my reading habits with rss.

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Post by ChrisLTD » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 4:59 PM UTC

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #8

What's wrong with email newsletters? I actually like them quite a bit.

For me, they get lost amidst the mountains of other email I get. I also don't like reading longer form content in my mail app. Having them sent to an RSS reader where I'm already reading news is a nice way to avoid those clashes of context.