If you’re only using social media platforms or individual online magazines to read news, this isn’t a sustainable approach in the long-term. This is because you become easily distracted by other content, and you need to carefully select your sources.
A distraction-free solution is to use RSS Reader Apps on laptops and smartphones. These apps store your source list in the standard OPML file format, which can also be exported into other formats.
The RSS Reader
In order to stay up to date with the latest news and content, an RSS reader is essential.
In this post, we’ll recommend apps with the following features:
- Free
- Cross-platform
- Privacy-focused
- Open-source apps
The RSS Reader apps we recommend are:
Fluent Reader
Fluent Reader is my favourite because of its modern design and dark theme features.
It’s free for MAC, Windows and Linux, and you can buy it for IOS and Android for $2.
If you don’t want to pay for the smartphone app, you can still try:
- NetNewsWire for IOS (Free and open-source)
- Feeder for Android (Free and open-source)
Feeder also on GitLab.
Some RSS sources you can start with
You can get started by pasting the following links into the RSS reader of your choice:
https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml
https://www.theguardian.com/international/rss
https://www.reutersagency.com/feed/?taxonomy=best-topics&post_type=best
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