What: An RSS reader (aka feed aggregator) is one of the best things in the world, and I remain flummoxed why everyone doesn't use one.
Maybe it's the tech-y sounding abbreviation (Rich Site Summary, for what it's worth), but they're free and also ridiculously easy to use.
The main thrust is that you can get all of your content from All the Websites in one place. You can organize your feeds into folders if that's your thing (it certainly is mine) and save/share posts as you wish.
But also! It lets you get around some of the most annoying things about online content.
- No videos playing as soon as you get to a site
- Streamlined readability (even compared to having an ad-blocker)
- No random content pushed at you from sketchy sources -- you choose the sites you want to see
- Things are organized chronologically
- You don't have to worry about constantly checking for updates because it saves things for you
I experience the internet (including Twitter and Tumblr) almost exclusively through my RSS reader and whenever I browse the Wide Wide World of Web without it, I feel like this.
And this.
How to get it: I use The Old Reader (named after the original Google Reader experience), but there are many options, like Feedly and NewsBlur and NewsTab.
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