Offline rss reader12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is probably the RSS reader that has the least amount of functionality, yet strangely is going to be used by the most people.įound under the “web feeds” tab in the Bookmarks section of the web browser, you can build up a device-specific list of RSS feeds – there’s no option to import your feeds from another service (commonly an 'OPML' file - Outline Processor Markup Language, which is a text list of RSS feeds). Nokia Web Browserīut let’s start with the hybrid option, the RSS built into Nokia’s S60 web browser. There are a number of Symbian RSS readers out there for your device, and I’m going to take a long look at some of the options now – to all the pet projects and favourites that are missed off the list, feel free to add them in the comments. Personally I prefer the online readers, firstly because the majority of my working time I am in wi-fi coverage, so staying online is not a cost issue, and secondly because it also allows me to read articles via the PC and know I’m not reading them twice.īut there are lots of options and none of them are fundamentally wrong. Offline readers generally hold the list of RSS feeds of sites on the smartphone, then go online to get the latest articles and download them, usually a setting for the user, from either the latest article, the last five or ten articles, etc. Often there is an option to download just the headlines of an article, and you can mark the article to be retrieved at the next connection.īoth methods are equally valid, and the chances are in the best circumstances both will give the same amount of data usage and time taken to read articles. Of course, this means you have to make a data connection and in most cases stay in coverage and maintain it while you read. The online RSS readers are generally web-based, with a ‘mobile’ version of the main site to log into, that allows you to switch effortlessly between using your smartphone and looking at the same list of sites on your desktop PC. Your first choice is to go either online or offline. RSS packages up the text and headlines of most news sites, blogs or other frequently updated sites, into a standard format – and that standard format means that a computer program can process and present them in such a way as to make it fast and easy to go through – when layout remains static, but content changes, it’s very easy on the eye.Īnd of course the smartphone can get in on the action as well – why buy a newspaper when your mobile screen can call up the latest news and information from sites and people which are important to you? So I’m going to take a look at a number of solutions to let you read RSS on your smartphone and see how they compare. Thankfully, the invention of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) has provided me with a much easier way of getting to these articles – I dread to think how keeping up could be done with old fashioned web browser bookmarks. I’m reading more and more sites, with more and more articles to read, every day. One day, one of my students may want to filter through recent publications looking for articles on asthma, and the next day they may want to see what the newest literature is on treatments for cystic fibrosis.Īny thoughts are, as always, greatly appreciated.The internet has clearly changed my reading habits. I know Feedbin and a few other RSS services allow searches/filtering on the server side, but I’m looking for something more flexible. My question is this: Are there any RSS Readers currently available (particularly for iOS/iPadOS) that allow searching locally? All of my trainees have an iPhone and/or iPad, and I’m wondering if there’s a way to replicate some of this search/filtering directly in an application at a lower price/complexity entry point than DEVONThink. It’s a fantastic way to pull in research from several sources and filter out the articles that are most interesting/relevant to me. It’s been awhile since this topic has been addressed, so I thought I would bring it up, with a somewhat unique twist:įor awhile now, I’ve been using DEVONThink as a central repository for newly published articles in academically relevant topics, as described at. ![]()
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