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Why isn't there one service that combines rss reader and bookmarking?
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[–] ineemio@rivals.space 1 points 4 days ago

@patthecat @selfhosted no one gonna mention that a freshrss contributor is doing exactly that ?
https://github.com/flusio/Flus

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This question is how new apps are born

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Probably because those are 2 different things?

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

But the usage heavily overlaps

[–] patthecat@techhub.social 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@finalarbiter I agree but how hard can it be to just let me save articles in a freshrss 😭

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

how hard can it be

Pull requests welcome

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It shouldn’t be that hard. I’ve had such a thing in readeef since forever

[–] xenthar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dunno if it is what you are looking for, but there is Linkwarden. It is primarily a bookmark/archiver (Saves a copy of the page), however, it has the ability to subscribe to feeds and will automatically bookmark anything in that feed.

[–] patthecat@techhub.social 2 points 1 week ago

@xenthar Yeaa I did check it out.. Thats the closest I think. Even Karakeep has a similar feature. And Newsblur has the ability to bookmark anything I heard.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Same reason that there isn't a product that combines a George Foreman Grill and a tablesaw.

[–] themachine@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How would that work exactly? I bookmark many things that are not feeds.

[–] patthecat@techhub.social 2 points 1 week ago

@themachine Exactly, most of my bookmarks comes from rss but just for few which dont come from a feed I have to selfhost n manage a saparate app

Because you haven't coded it yet. 🤗

Chop chop!

[–] lightrain@forum.storstad.net 5 points 1 week ago

Probably not an answer you'd like to see: I am using FeedFlow which supports bookmarking articles, having FreshRSS as the source of truth.

[–] Cala@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I use Karakeep, which is a bookmark manager with an RSS feed option, but you need to add some auto tags or your feed will just become a mess - it saves ALL the links from RSS feeds you add.

[–] patthecat@techhub.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

@Cala I think this comes closest to what I want. Thankss

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Surely that's just FreshRSS with a plugin like Wallabag or Readeck. I use FreshRSS and Readeck for precisely this. One-click bookmarking (and archiving of the page, too).

[–] patthecat@techhub.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@tenebrisnox Yeaa I guess this was what I might do. I just wish I could star any link in freshrss to read it later instead of using another app

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Have you tried favouriting the post using the star button? I've just tried it and it does work as a read-it-later function even if you mark as read.

[–] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you simply want to bookmark posts you discover via RSS or do you wanna be able to add arbitrary links to it too?

[–] patthecat@techhub.social 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@shrek_is_love arbitrary links to it too.. I just want to be able to save any link in my rss reader

[–] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I bet there's a bookmarking app that can output an RSS feed since they're pretty simple; then you could just subscribe to it from any feed reader. You could possibly even build a simple one. Where do you want to be able to save bookmarks from? And what RSS reader do you use?

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 2 points 1 week ago

Nextcloud has both RSS reader and bookmark manager, the bookmark manager had a link you can click to bookmark the site your on

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

You mean like Firefox's smart bookmarks or something else?

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FreshRSS + Readeck

You could run them in parallel, or fork both and smush em together

[–] patthecat@techhub.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@lIlIlIlIlIlIl Do they work in sync? Like if I save something in FreshRss it shows up in Readeck?

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course not, but you could of course fork both projects and kludge them together. FreshRSS is the feed provider, you could probably find an RSS client that saves links.

[–] patthecat@techhub.social 1 points 1 week ago

@lIlIlIlIlIlIl Sounds intriguing, might give it a try.

[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

There was. TTRSS had both of these functionalities in its app. There was a 'Read Later' shortcut that put the article you wanted to save into the app via an Android shortcut. It was beautiful. The owner was a famously disgruntled (read: asshole) coder who finally gave the app up. The new coder does not include this functionality the revamped app.

[–] IlIlIlIlIlI@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m using Readwise Reader for years now and it’s the only service deserves it’s subscription for me. It’s not self hosted tho.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can someone please explain RSS to me? I just don't get it and I've been using Firefox since it was Netscape Navigator 2.0

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Explain how it works or what it is?

It's just a feed you can follow (think of following someone on IG or twitter). You'll get notified about the new content on that feed.

You can subscribe to all the feeds that are interesting to you and now you have a place to read the all and get notified when something new is out.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't have ig or teitter

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Imagine you had a feed like Lemmy's home feed, where things from the places you follow show up in a single feed you can look through and open the items you want to read.

Sites used to publish an RSS feed of everything they posted. GReader was the king like 10 (omfg, 20?) years ago. They they fucking killed it like they do with all their good, non-mail/YouTube projects.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

But I'm sure you get the gist

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Someone can publish a list of updates in a computer-friendly XML format at a given URL.

An RSS client polls it periodically for updates, maybe notifies a the client's user when new updates show up, tracks which they've viewed.

Some people use it to provide notifications when their blog has new entries. Some to notify about new podcast episodes. I've seen it used to provide notifications of new BitTorrents being started on a tracker.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

See every update from the websites you want updates from without trusting an algorithm to surface them to you.

[–] AntonioAndolini@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Do you mean bookmarking web pages? Vivaldi browser has rss, email and the usual bookmarking functions.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

??? Highly unclear what exactly you are imagining.

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Freshhrss with a configured share to a bookmark service like linkding? Is that what you are looking for?

[–] danbruegge@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I use Reeder (https://reederapp.com/) with FreshRSS (https://freshrss.org/), and there is a read-it-later option. Here I can add URLs from the browser and articles from the reader. This works quite well also as some sort of bookmarking. I’ve used bookmarks mostly as a read-it-later tool. 😅