Damn, as someone who has only ever subscribed to RSS feeds on the odd occasion in the past, your comment here has really shone a light on just how powerful this tool can be.
Thanks for sharing this insight!
Is your daily driver OS also Ubuntu? How do you organise / consume your RSS feed(s)?
Seems like you've really streamlined your setup to the point of it having minimal friction - I'd be keen to try emulate this.
I use Ubuntu as my only operating system, yes, on both the desktop and on servers.
There really is nothing special about my workflow, though, I just keep Feedbin open in the browser and check it throughout the day, acting when necessary[1]. I am currently subscribed to 182 feeds, so I spend a considerable amount of time reading and acting on what I read.
The most "unusual" piece of the workflow is probably YouTube, since I watch without access their website. When a new video is posted, Feedbin notifies me and I copy the URL of the video from inside the application. I then paste that on a terminal to feed mpv or youtube-dl depending on when I want to watch it, and move on. Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description.
[1] Acting means either reading an article, notifying customers, or testing and updating servers based on releases and vulnerabilities in this context.
> Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description.
This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks!
Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. That's a game-changer for me. Cheers.
> This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks!
You are welcome! I separate workspaces by their purposes so to speak, so the one with qutebrowser[1] is divided in four squares, with qutebrowser, aerc[2], profanity[3], and an empty terminal window.
When I need to focus on one, I just switch it to full screen with a keyboard shortcut.
> Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs.
Just to complete my previous comment, the command above gives you an YouTube video played by mpv in picture by picture mode, which should always persist on top when switching workspaces in i3wm.
[1] The browser I use daily for personal things. Work stays in another browser in another workspace.
Thanks for sharing this insight!
Is your daily driver OS also Ubuntu? How do you organise / consume your RSS feed(s)?
Seems like you've really streamlined your setup to the point of it having minimal friction - I'd be keen to try emulate this.