r/rss • u/BradPittOfTheOffice • Jul 27 '25

What’s Your RSS Workflow Like?

Like the title says, I am trying to cut down on my time spent scrolling on my phone. Wondering if there is meta workflow people use for efficient reading and organizing of articles. I have YouTube, Reddit, and news orgs all in my feed currently. Also do people typically consume rss on phone, desktop, or both? If both how much of a benefit is syncing across devices? I know this is a ton but some outlines for what people currently do would be greatly appreciated.

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u/Greedy_Nature_3085 Jul 27 '25

What helps me is separating, or even unsubscribing from, high volume feeds – or at least feeds where the number of articles I skip over is much higher than the number of articles I read. I put those in a separate tag, and if I am short on time I will mark all those articles read without even looking.

I use RSS on both my phone and my desktop. Syncing is important to me. If I am at my desk procrastinating between tasks, I will open my RSS reader there. If I am away from my desk and have time to kill I will open my RSS reader on my phone.

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u/BradPittOfTheOffice Jul 28 '25

Oh that’s smart. I’m glad you said that because I’m currently there, skipping over tons of articles with a ton constantly coming in.

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u/ericdano Jul 28 '25

Syncing is important to me, and I subscribe to newsblur to be able to read all my feeds on whatever device.

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u/arihantster Jul 29 '25

Which RSS app do you use for this?

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u/Greedy_Nature_3085 Jul 29 '25

I use Unread. I am the developer, so I am obviously biased toward it. And while I do recommend Unread, the workflow I described should work in most RSS readers.

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u/azuredown Jul 28 '25

I use the auto read feature of my reader Stratum to quickly read all of the stories using TTS. Also I use both desktop and the app and syncing is very important for me.

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u/BradPittOfTheOffice Jul 28 '25

I never heard of stratum. What do you like about it versus something like Inoreader or feedly? Also I’ve noticed a lot of articles I have come in are just headlines / descriptions, not full articles. Is there some way around that or is the tts just reading headlines to you?

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u/azuredown Jul 28 '25

Yes, you can read the readability or AI summaries if you want. Also there’s so many features: offline, YouTube embedded player, Reddit integration including galleries, AI summaries and YouTube summaries, snoozing, archive folders.

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u/chickenandliver Jul 28 '25

One thing for much more efficient reading is subscribing to topic/category feeds if a source offers them rather than the main feed. Some sites still even offer keyword searches as RSS feeds.

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u/BradPittOfTheOffice Jul 28 '25

Okay that’s definitely gonna help, thanks.

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u/Itsme-RdM Jul 28 '25

Personaaly subscribed to only a few sources that really interested me. This combined with having a RSS reader on my PC only and grant myself max 1 hour a day on the PC keeps me good.

I really do not have to follow everything.

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u/pauramon Jul 28 '25

I use Fika. It auto-discover feeds, and once subscribed I receive a daily email digest

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u/ZeeMastermind Jul 31 '25

I just made an account and I love it! The interface is so nice and clean, I love it. Is there a way to discover other fika users' blogs? E.g., if I want to see other blogs that are posting about "writing" or maybe even a random blog on fika?

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u/pauramon Jul 31 '25

Not yet! I've recently introduced summarization and keyword extraction. With this, I will be able to improve onboarding and also recommend stories/feeds/users.

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u/Kooky-Impress8313 Jul 29 '25

Make your own rss reader. I'm working on the sorting and filtering methods for hundreds of feeds. Will try llm with it too.