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Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by ElevenLathe »

For personal stuff, just Discord (one server with my hometown friends, another with friends from another city) and email (which in turn contains the latest stuff from various RSS feeds/podcasts via rss2email)."

Work is mostly the same except we use Slack instead of Discord. My work inbox is mostly useless with the number of internal lists I'm on, but I make an effort to scan that for stuff that I might actually need to read or respond to. Then I respond to any red pips in Slack -- I'm in enough channels and threads that I just have to leave most channels "white" most of the time, and the "Unreads" and the "Threads" views are mostly useless.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by littleabe »

mehphp wrote: post #25
littleabe wrote: post #10

Via RSS, I visit this little aggregated news page: https://plaintruthpoems.com/rss/JDsNewsFeeds.php

Nice! I need to set something up like this.

Based on this website: https://feedcourt.bendonnelly.com/ GitHub repo here: https://github.com/bendybendy/feedcourt

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by thdc »

bennyp101 wrote: post #27

I have 4 main sites in Livemarks on my browser: - BBC News - Ars Tech - HN - (local newspaper for my area) I don't really checkin - more just click on the dropdown to see if there is anything interesting randomly throughout the day. My wife looks at a lot of news sites, so I figure she will fill me in on anything else - I have breaking news alerts on for BBC on my phone, but I've found recently it's more just standar…

Same here, I may browse various places periodically in search of an interesting article/content but I don't aim to be informed of every current event.

I may research topics individually if I want to "catch-up" (learn) about something that someone else has brought to my attention.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by ttul »

Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis.

LEISURE TIME

1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting.

2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world.

3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT.

4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about things WSJ would not put on their front page. Good data journalism.

5. YouTube: Lex Fridman interviews, machine learning channels, Minecraft hardcore play throughs, and whatever else the algorithm brings me.

6. Podcasts: Economist Intelligence, CBC The World At Six, PBS News Hour, Bloomberg Odd Lots, NYT The Daily, This Week in Virology, Practical AI, Last Week in AI (this is new to me and good)

WORK

1. Slack: managing my team and also connecting with a couple of industry groups.

2. Email: it pours in all day. I have a lot of Gmail filters and some custom scripting to automate things.

3. I’m working on automating every manual process in my job as CEO, even though it’s painful. The investment will be worthwhile.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by nickthegreek »

hasbot wrote: post #17

Really just two: /r/politics and /r/news.

Why is this downvoted? You might not think these are good sources, but they are this person's valid answer to the Ask HN question. We shouldn't be using downvotes like that.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by sarasasa28 »

lddemi wrote: post #16
prepend wrote: post #13

For me it’s: -HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”) -Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff -gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day -discord once or twice a d…

Definitely recommend using Apollo with a little tuning for Reddit on mobile. Clean and clear of all their growth experiments

I like Apollo but I ended up having to install the official reddit app because most times if you google something on Mobile, it just doesn't open Apollo and tries to install the official one :/

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by LonelyWolfe »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #28

I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like: Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss) Journals: professional journals in my field Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, we…

Out of curiosity... Does anyone use the rss reader in MS Outlook? I know MS is supposed to pack a lot of features to catch as much audience as possible, but are there enough people still using it to this day?
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