Understanding RSS and Newsletter#
I knew nothing about RSS before, until I read diygod's article Say No to Newsletter, which gave me some basic understanding of RSS and Newsletter. So I consulted Claude and got the following answer:
Although I still have a limited understanding, my understanding is that RSS is a user-initiated subscription mechanism, while Newsletter tends to passively obtain information.
Integration of RSS with other software#
I only started using blogs this year. For some blog articles that I like, I would save them using omnivore. Every time I want to see updates from the bloggers, I need to open the website or client, enter the blog, and initially, I followed a small number of bloggers, so clicking a few times was not too troublesome. But when I started following more bloggers, this behavior became cumbersome, and more time was wasted on interaction.
RSS solves this problem. Here, I have to mention another amazing plugin developed by diygod, RSSHub, which makes discovering RSS more elegant. With one-click subscription to feedly and then importing to Reeder, high-quality articles are collected in omnivore, and obsidian automatically synchronizes, allowing me to directly reference them in obsidian. This forms an elegant closed loop of internet information.
This is only the initial application at present, and there is more to be developed in terms of practice. But I have to thank all the experts for their efforts, which have made me realize that even in the internet era, we can break free from the calculations and constraints of big data, abandon the distractions of complex information, and focus more on obtaining the information we want.