Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts.
I have been using the tool, which I called Artemis, for several months. Every morning, I looked forward to my "morning paper" of blogs I love reading.
There are no notifications, read vs. unread states, counts of posts, etc. Only the last seven days of posts are available. The colour scheme is changeable. Dark mode is supported. All popular feed formats are supported.
There is no reading interface to read blog posts; rather, the links take you to the authors' websites. Many of my favourite bloggers put a lot of effort into the design of their blogs and like to change things up; I wanted an experience that embraced that.
The reader is now available for anyone to use (with invite code "hn").
I'll plan to give this a try. I like the forcing function to curb our naturally addictive behaviors.
Small typo to fix ('chronolgically'): https://triplechecker.com/s/996462/artemis.jamesg.blog
I have been thinking of creating a similar app; however I wanted to do a "Sunday paper". This look nice and I like the minimalist design, but I would prefer to have solution that I can self-host.
The tool actually is open source, so you could self-host it if you wish. MIT license, in Python. The repository [1] is linked in the blog post the author wrote about the project [2].
[1]: https://github.com/capjamesg/web-reader
[2]: https://jamesg.blog/2024/11/30/designing-a-calm-web-reader/
The open source version is a bit different from the hosted one: the open source code involves running the polling script, then building a static site (which is how I run the site for several months as a single-user project).
I am planning to move the polling changes upstream soon and then figure out a plan for open sourcing the full project.
This looks great! Congrats on shipping.
Have you considered open sourcing it? I would rather self-host something like this.
It is actually open source, though I'm not sure if it's linked directly on the site. (It is linked in his blog post.) The repository: https://github.com/capjamesg/web-reader
Ah, thanks, I missed it.
Looks like it's already open source: https://github.com/capjamesg/web-reader
This would be interesting as a project using the Miniflux API (https://github.com/miniflux/v2). That way it would already use my existing feeds and I don't have a separate "reading tool".
I tried to import the OPML file exported by https://wordpress.com/read/subscriptions but it says "Failed to parse OPML."
Edit: just managed to find the support email. I'll send you the OPML file through it~
Apologies for the inconvenience. A fix has been deployed.
this is why HN is the best
Thank you for the email. The OPML import is a bit of a newer feature so it hasn't had as much testing. I'll take a look to see what's going on and get back to you.
I love the idea of a simple, digest-style, mode. Might make some version of this for Instagram. There's nothing so important on Instagram that it can't wait for the next day.
Can you recommend a tool that could check an Instagram feed once a day for the current photos? I found a command line tool, but it tries to download the whole account, rather than just the daily updates.
That's exactly the tool I would use. There are options you can use to configure what posts are downloaded:
https://instaloader.github.io/cli-options.html#which-posts-t...
Actually, I made a mistake. That tool I haven't got working yet because of the necessary authentication. I've been using this one without auth, but it downloads everything.
Awesome!
thanks. I pay for miniflux through pikapods that I can now get rid of, thanks to your free and alternative offering.
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