One of my favorite apps

I’d been hesitant to purchase this app, since I already use Feedly, but the integration with Pinboard sold me on it, and this app has completely changed my workflow. I now actually check my RSS feeds consistently instead of popping by the Feedly website once every few months, reading a few articles, and then marking everything else as read because it’s too much. It’s also been instrumental in cleaning up my cluttered Pinboard account. All my unread items now go to Pocket, which makes them easier to read on the go, and then I can easily move them to Pinboard if they’re something I want to save. And it had never even occurred to me that I could use RSS to follow YouTube and IFTTT to follow Tumblr until I started using this app. For the first time in years I actually feel in control of the content I consume, share, and save.

The one feature I would love is built-in Tumblr support. Currently I have an IFTTT recipe that sends all new posts on my timeline to Pocket with the tag {tumblr dashboard}, which I’ve created a smart folder so that I can go through it quickly, but while I find it a lot easier and less overwhelming than using the Tumblr website, it’s a pretty awkward process. For many of the Tumblr entries, I have to hit a keyboard shortcut to see the webpage view in order to actually see the content, then hit another keyboard shortcut to open it in my browser if I want to reblog it, then go back to ReadKit and delete it from my Pocket account so that doesn’t get cluttered. (You can tell how much I hate Tumblr’s interface that this awkward workflow makes me use Tumblr MORE.)

All in all, this is one of those apps I can’t imagine my Mac without.

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