When I just started out in tech, I found many interesting sites {insert dev.to something news etc here}. My bookmark bar would have a folder dedicated to all the the websites I thought were valuable to me. Every day, I would visit them one by one, checking if there is anything new that excites me to read. I had a Notion database where I saved the URLs to the articles I read, with categories and star ratings.
I don’t use Notion anymore (that’s a story for another day). {open source, markdown, data control}
However, the way I kept up with tech news wasn’t efficient. I knew where the good sauces are, but I didn’t know when they had a new article. I had to periodically check. I call this pull-based reading.
What is RSS?
With RSS, the “pulling” is done by a server. In my perspective, new articles are “pushed” to me — I call it push-based reading.
Push-based reading is great because:
- It saves time. I don’t have to spend time everyday scanning the sites for new content. Doing so risks distracting me with unpredictable, nonsensical things that may appear.
- The content is collected to a centralized place where I can organize them to fit my reading style.
Readwise Reader {insert pros}