From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Leha Subject: Re: Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:01:38 +0100 Message-ID: <871ub2z559.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> References: <2013-03-26T13-37-35@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKTVq-0005F0-Ta for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:02:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKTVp-0002fL-8U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:02:02 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47898) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKTVp-0002fD-1i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:02:01 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UKTW9-0002L4-05 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:02:21 +0100 Received: from genepi110.genepi.med.uni-goettingen.de ([134.76.140.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:02:20 +0100 Received: from andreas.leha by genepi110.genepi.med.uni-goettingen.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:02:20 +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 Karl, Karl Voit writes: > 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. This is not an answer to your question, sorry. But you can host your own reader. I can recommend tiny-tiny-rss, which also has a nice android client (two, actually). To get the content instead of the short description, you can try full-text-rss (you can host this yourself as well). It does not work perfect (esp. heise content is missing in a lot of articles), but improves the situation. I expect a good solution based on emacs to be hard to set up, because of heavy image/markup/codesnippet/..-use in many articles and because of syncing. But I'll follow this thread and would be habby to be proven wrong... Regards, Andreas