Problem statement: I have a bunch of links to sites that update infrequently (think monthly or quarterly magazines) and I want to remember to go read them when they’ve updated.
RSS isn’t a great solution since almost all sites spam out constant low-value content which I’d prefer to not be bombarded with - I just want to see the main updates, similarly to how I’d have received a magazine in the mail, in the past.
The basic answer here is just keep a list of links and remember to click them, and that’s what I do, but it feels like there could be a better solution…
How do you handle this?
I bookmark them in a folder named “Monthly”. Once a month, I right-click on that bookmark folder and open them all.
I also have similar folders called “Daily” and “Weekly”.
I set a recurring reminder in my calendar to remember to open the weekly and monthly ones, so I don’t have to keep track of whether I did or not.
Calendar entry?
Fraidycat is a cool RSS reader that let you organize your feeds in different frequency tabs so you don’t have the issue you just described
some RSS readers allow you to run filters on specific feeds BUT if those feeds are happily padding out their off-season, chances are they’re keeping it generic enough there’s nothing to filter against :(
Simple bookmarks i visit manually is what i‘m doing
There are sites that inform you once the website changes via email. Alternatively RSS feeds are still a thing. Yahoo pipes allows you to build your own RSS feeds from websites that don’t have one.
static HTML file in local storage
I used to use a plugin called daily coffee which would open sites on a particular schedule that I would set up.
