Saturday, September 7, 2024

Well I have played with the new Reeder App for a couple of days now. I can’t decide what I think of it? And I wasn’t going to write about it…but I am 🙃

Some thoughts…

• The convenience of having everything in one place, I like that.
• The find the reading experience and navigation pleasant.
• I wish that there was more organization. The dedicated apps for me allow me that organization.
  • My RSS reader will mark things read so that I am not left with an ever increasing list. Like for example NetNewsWire or indeed Reeder’s own Classic version does.
  • My Mastodon app allows me to make use of filters, lists, etc to make things more easily findable and keep what I don’t want off my screen.
  • Maybe some/all of this will come in time?
• And maybe to contradict what I said above, I also like the different layouts of different apps depending on which platform I am visiting. It lends to the flavour and mood setting of the platform as I go in to use it.

I am also on the beta of The Iconfactory’s Tapestry, an app that is exploring the same ideas as Reeder. It’s earlier days for Tapestry, and so I will reserve judgment there until it is a more mature app.

I found myself thinking of Reeder vs how I have until now consumed my online content earlier today while I was out cutting our hedge. My mind drifted to newspapers. I don’t read one on a daily basis anymore - mmmh, did I ever? - but they were a form of content consumption aside from news. I liked them. I miss them. By the time that the big newspapers arrive in Hawaii, most of the news has moved on.

So I’ll see where I end up. For now it will be the individual apps, as I also spend time jumping between apps comparing experience instead of reading content! 🤦‍♂️