From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:01:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ub2z559.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2013-03-26T13-37-35@devnull.Karl-Voit.at
Hi Karl,
Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-26 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-26 12:49 Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader Karl Voit
2013-03-26 13:01 ` Andreas Leha [this message]
2013-03-26 14:35 ` Carmine Casciato
2013-03-26 14:58 ` Karl Voit
2013-03-26 15:42 ` Fabrice Popineau
2013-03-26 16:00 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-27 9:54 ` Karl Voit
2013-03-27 10:56 ` Samuel Loury
2013-03-27 11:59 ` Rasmus
2013-03-27 14:46 ` Karl Voit
2013-03-27 23:09 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-03-28 3:52 ` Carmine Casciato
2013-03-28 10:03 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-03-28 17:18 ` François Pinard
2013-03-26 16:32 ` Nick Dokos
2013-03-26 19:41 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-03-26 20:40 ` Fabrice Popineau
2013-04-14 14:14 ` Steinar Bang
2013-04-15 7:47 ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-04-16 9:35 ` Karl Voit
2013-04-16 10:35 ` Rainer M. Krug
2013-04-16 10:58 ` Karl Voit
2013-04-16 11:43 ` Tom
2013-04-16 13:21 ` OT: Android, external HW-keyboard and Emacs (was: Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader) Karl Voit
2013-04-16 18:30 ` OT: Android, external HW-keyboard and Emacs David Rogers
2013-04-16 22:47 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-23 9:05 ` Karl Voit
2013-04-23 9:56 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-23 10:33 ` Android MobileOrg and appointments; ICS export and Google Calendar (was: OT: Android, external HW-keyboard and Emacs) Karl Voit
2013-04-23 13:25 ` Android MobileOrg and appointments; ICS export and Google Calendar Eric S Fraga
2013-04-24 4:29 ` Rémi Vanicat
2013-04-23 20:16 ` OT: Android, external HW-keyboard and Emacs Julien Cubizolles
2013-04-24 7:36 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-23 19:23 ` 白い熊
2013-04-18 16:52 ` OT: Android, external HW-keyboard and Emacs (was: Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader) Subhan Tindall
2013-04-16 12:05 ` Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader François Pinard
2013-04-16 22:49 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-03-26 18:31 ` Ivan Kanis
2013-03-27 13:18 ` [OT] Replacement for Google Reader (was: Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader) Memnon Anon
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