Ask HN: What tools do you use to digest news?
I am looking for new ways to get and digest news that either I can curate myself, like RSS feeds, or have great, unbiased algorithms to deliver great content that I want to read. I used to use Flipboard but I was not happy in the curation.
Thanks!
Here are my tools to digest news everyday:
TweetDeck: Best tool to digest massive tweets from Twitter. (https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/)
Something: Read The New Yorker, The Economist, Financial Times, NYT…for free.(Use your Twitter account to follow those media )(https://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/something-instant-articles-f...)
Day one Journal+IFTTT: Read your favorite tweets faster.
Nuzzel: Know what’s the trending news from your friends(the people you follow)on Twitter.(http://nuzzel.com/)
Feedly: Best RSS reader.(https://feedly.com)
Pocket: Save good articles from Feedly and any web page.(https://getpocket.com/a/)
Hacker news app: Best community in tech.
I actually was just thinking about this problem the other day in the context of active vs passive systems and customization. I used to use Reddit a lot and found it to be a powerful tool for finding things related to my interests but nowadays(post college) I'm finding it hard to justify the time waste of actively scrolling through for new things. I have started building a chatbot that will learn your interests and then actively bring you the best things it can find. Then you can tell it "Good job" or "I'm not interested in that" and it would learn over time what news sources our prefer, what topics you like, or even the average length of an article you prefer. I also think Reddit is powerful but can be difficult to set up for non-internet-nerds. Turning the initial setup of a custom "channel" into an active conversation might lower the barrier and help get more people access to the content they're craving.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!