Tons of digital feeds...?
Never know where you kept the one you need now?
How to manage them into an optimal reading workflow?
This post will show the basic setup and components.
The next post will dive into the details.
Digital Reading Hub
The main components:
I choose Instapaper.com to be my reading hub for digital feeds.
Instapaper is best known as a "read it later" app, used for saving web pages.Â
The saved page is sent to the Home (inbox) folder of the app. A basic folder system enables the sorting and storing of the pages.
The major highlights that make it a perfect hub:Â
Fully synced to multi-platforms (Web,Mac,iPad,iPhone ),
A Powerful sharing integration in various OS and super fast saving process from any source,
Finally, a Fast reading feature and a text annotation capability.
Daily feeds:
I've been using feeds aggregation apps for as long as I can remember.
My favorite was Pulse ( 2010....on my first iPad)
A personal recommendation from steve jobs...
Since LinkedIn bought it, I struggled to find a proper replacement.
Apple News is the one I use since Apple announced it. The app is not as flexible as others but it gets the job done for me
Notability from gingerlabs is one of the best notetaking apps; I've been using for years.
It's my main app for annotating a large PDF file. It has an excellent voice recording that syncs to the annotation, and much much more. the app is excellent for academic studies and conferences. (I'll post a detailed post on that in the future).I use it back and forth (hence the bidirectional arrow...) with Instapaper.
Other feeds:
Social network platforms such as Medium, Linkedin, Facebook, etc.
Video and podcast platforms such as Ted, Youtube, apple podcast, Spotify, etc.Â
The special sauce is in the process - the actual workflow
stay tuned for the next post.