![]() However, you should not make the mistake of using your personal email for subscribing. “Email has now decisively reclaimed its dominant role as the last mile of push communications.”. Newsletters emerged as a more convenient and familiar alternative to RSS feeds. Special case: NewslettersĮven though some platforms and websites provide RSS, it looks like the war is almost over already. Let’s dig into a few tricky parts though. If you are more or less a technical person, you probably already know everything I said above. It seems that Feedly or Inoreader are good competitors. One of the features that raises it above the competition is the ability to receive newsletters (more on that later). I’ve been using NewsBlur since Google killed its Google Reader, and I am more than happy with it. There are thousands of RSS clients for every platform. RSS readers, in turn, becomes your email client for news. Websites provide a special page (a feed) that can be automatically consumed by apps called RSS readers. RSS is one of the open-source technologies that was not backed by any big corporation and is unfortunately becoming more and more extinct. There’s no point in traversing all your sources manually and asking if there’s anything new. The idea is to minimize the time you spend looking for new articles and maximize time reading and working with them. Similar to how every email that is directed to you appears in your email inbox, you can organize the same thing for inbound articles and blog posts. The first and most effective thing you can do if you want to spend less time searching for information is to organize a News Inbox. The problem is how you deal with that urge. I think that the urge to check social media or your favorite sources is fine. “Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished by a certain deadline”. That sounds a lot like procrastination to me. You might have a habit of periodically checking all of them until you catch yourself discussing one of them on social media or spending too much time on reading and needing to take a rest. That can be favorite online newspapers, interesting people on Twitter, or a collection of personal blogs and newsletters. Why subscribe instead of checking websites?Įveryone has their own sources from where they prefer to consume information. It is supposed to give an insight into my workflow and hopefully, it can inspire you to adopt some of the same techniques. In this post I will describe my process of consuming information online, focusing mostly on practical steps and solutions. I’d argue that this is a false feeling and can become a huge waste of time. Reading news and articles makes us feel smarter and up-to-date. Researchers have found that our brains are wired to have a dopamine response to novelty. “People are frugal in guarding their personal property but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” - Seneca
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