From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:49:12 +0100 Message-ID: <2013-03-26T13-37-35@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Reply-To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKTJi-0000O8-TC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:49:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKTJg-0005v4-Vx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:49:30 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKTJg-0005uy-Or for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:49:28 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UKTK0-0005qh-Tt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:49:48 +0100 Received: from mail.michael-prokop.at ([88.198.6.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:49:48 +0100 Received: from news1142 by mail.michael-prokop.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:49:48 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi! TL;DR: org-feed.el is not a doable replacement for Google Reader. What about alternatives? I am using Google Reader with the Android app "NewsRob Pro" which is very good in terms of features that make sense and support my workflow. Google Reader will die in July and therefore NewsRob will die as well (or has to migrate to another server platform which is unlikely due to lack of time from the author). So I was thinking of using Emacs with or without Org-mode as a potential replacement. I basically live in Org-mode. Since I read RSS a *lot* on my Android devices (yes, even being at home), I'd love to have sync abilities between desktop Emacs and something like MobileOrg. I stumbled upon org-feed.el[1][2] and tried it with two of my RSS feeds (heise, Dilbert). It's working. In a way. Unfortunately, there is no (obvious) way of getting the feed content rather than the short description (for selected feeds). Images are not shown (Dilbert comic strip) and HTML fragments are all over the place making it hard to read the news. Since the resulting data did not fulfill basic requirements, I did not even bother and try to sync it to MobileOrg. Therefore, org-feed.el is not a replacement for Google Reader and NewsRob for my set of requirements at all. I wonder if there are a group of people having the same issue because of the demise of Google Reader and apps that sync from/to there. Any suggestions? Ideas? I'd prefer to think about having a solution which is hosted on my computers rather than having to re-do the switch when the next cloud based service stops working in a year or so. 1. http://orgmode.org/manual/RSS-Feeds.html 2. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-feed.html -- Karl Voit