Title: RSS stuff Date: 1st May 2021

So, I've been looking at RSS readers, because what my life really needs is better organisation to my distraction. At any rate I've reviewed a couple of RSS clients, including liferea and newsboat (console based). I sort of like them, but to my mind, although one is 'graphical' and one operates in the terminal they really are both user interfaces. And in some respects the terminal one is worse, because it is more idiosyncratic in its setup. What I want is a single coherent user interface. So how would that work for an RSS feed. Maybe something like:

you list all your urls in a file, just like newsboat. The feeds get pulled down as folders with the pages as files - could just be the extracted html then you can search/open them up however you like with your pre-existing tools.

But what are some of the things that RSS readers do, that aren't naturally available to us on the command line?

• Have a user interface like the ranger program
• show all items from all folders in a single flat view, ordered however you choose (can you do that with ls?)
• allow tagging (can we do that in linux?)
• keep track of whether the item has been read - can we add arbitrary meta-data?
• easily launch the item in the browser - have a default association in the shell
• get a kind of preview window so just clicking once starts displaying - tie the cl to the preview
• retain a history of what's been read

some sensible tools: * Extract just the content portion of a webpage. * Render that in the quickest and most light-weight way possible.