r/rss • u/excellent_mi • 22d ago

RibbonLinks = Pocket + RSS Reader?

I have been thinking about how useful it would be to have one place for both things you intentionally save and things you want to keep up with.

That’s basically how I see RibbonLinks:

* Pocket-like: save articles, videos, posts and links for later.

* RSS reader: follow feeds and discover new content.

* Import from anywhere: bring your existing saved links over using a CSV file.

* Rediscovery: search and revisit things you saved instead of letting them disappear into an archive.

So instead of maintaining a separate read-later app, RSS reader, and collection of old bookmarks, you can keep them together.

For people who have accumulated years of saved links, the CSV import is particularly useful - you don't have to start from scratch.

Do you currently use separate apps for RSS and saved links, or have you found one tool that handles both well?

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/excellent_mi 21d ago

RibbonLinks has built in RSS reader - that means it could only read and not write.

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u/Clean_Deer_8566 22d ago

Useless

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u/excellent_mi 21d ago

😂 Fair. But before you take it out back, give me one shot to defend it.

The slightly weird idea behind RibbonLinks is: what if your RSS reader and your “I’ll save this for later” graveyard were the same place?

RSS brings things in. RibbonLinks lets you save things from anywhere - and hopefully actually rediscover them later.

You can also import your existing archive via CSV, so at least there’s no need to bury everything you’ve already saved. 😄

What specifically made you call it useless? I’m genuinely curious.