Trying Currents

Today I’m trying Current, the new RSS feed reader app by Terry Godier (beautiful announcement and explainer post there).

I’ve been using Readwise Reader for my RSS feeds exclusively for a couple years now and I love it very much for the actual act of reading and notating. But the feeds section has become a bit unwieldily for me. I have nearly 500 different sites/blogs I subscribe to, collected over the years, not to mention the dozens of newsletters that Reader allows me to subscribe to in their system. The options for sifting through unread articles are: 1) chronological or 2) sorted by “author” (where author is some extracted concept, not the actual feed source). There’s no real option to quickly find a specific source and there’s no hierarchy of sources.

Current promises to help you find a hierarchy of what you actually want to read and let the rest flow away. I’ll try that for a bit, if only because of Terry’s beautiful writing and design in presenting this idea.

Note

The subscribe-to-newsletter-as-feed is a killer feature in Reader that very well might keep me there instead of Current. I’m kind of hopeful that Current could adopt that feature.

I’ll still be actually saving/reading articles in Reader (for highlighting), but maybe Current can provide a better ingestion/browsing system.