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January 19, 2005

Update on Noteworthy Newsreader

My blog post Saturday was about Lektora, a noteworthy newsreader, that Tris Hussey was trying out to manage 290 RSS feeds.

Tris has updated this story today by offering his review of Lektora.

In the review Tris says:

The search and bookmarked searches are great. I know that I've been saving serious time gathering content using Lektora. Sage was pretty close, but with Sage I still had to scroll through all my feeds, regardless of where there was new content or now. With Lektora only feeds with new content are shown. The two pane design and opening content in tabs (Firefox) makes the info very skimable.
Now, all is not perfect. It would be great to be able to look at archives of content in increments larger than a day. Week? Month for sure. I know that I'll need to go looking for something and clicking every single day to find it will drive me nuts. Sure a good search bookmarked might speed it up, but clicking 30 or more days to find one item...nope.

Tris now reports to having 320 RSS feeds to sort through and feels Lektora showing only feeds with new content is a feature, but having far less feeds to sort through then Tris, I don't see this as a feature but more of a bug. Rather, I see it as an annoyance. Enough so... that I won't be downloading the software to try it out.

Of course everyone has an opinion, and if you would like to share yours you can download Lektora and post a comment or review to this post or my discussion forum.

Thanks goes to Tris for trying the software and following up with his review.

Posted by Steve MacLellan at January 19, 2005 08:09 AM

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Hi,

You can display all the days’ news items and not only what’s new. There is an option to do it.

I suggest you to try Lektora. It's the best way to appreciate it!

Here is an interesting quote by the inventor of RSS, Dave Winer:

"Let the river of items flow through your queue, scroll over them with a scroll bar, and don't let the software tell you you're falling behind. Your time is what's valuable, there's no value to the items you didn't read. If it's important it'll pop up again. RSS is not email. Don't sort them out into little boxes that you have to go to, make them flow to you, in a river, unsorted"

Kind regards,

Jean-Francois Nadeau, Lektora author.

Posted by: jfnadeau at January 19, 2005 09:46 AM

Hi Jean,

From Tris's initial comments I thought this sounded pretty exciting. Tris is a Canadian, like us, who uses Firefox and Sage like I do. Since we are used to the same software, I was happy to see his review of it this morning.

My work as a web developer doesn't require me to keep up on RSS feeds on a daily basis. I would expect that most people fall into this category. This being the case, I may read a story I found through Sage that I would like to comment on , but it might be a couple of days before I get to it. Just the same, when I open Sage in Firefox two days later, the story is still listed. This gives me the opportunity to use it as a reference to my post.

Dave Winer says:

"Your time is what's valuable, there's no value to the items you didn't read. If it's important it'll pop up again."

The Sage extension for Firefox and a couple of other RSS readers I've tried don't seem to hold this philosophy, and frankly, I don't either.

If you want to build a top-notch product that will have an appeal to more then RSS power users, in my opinion you have to let people configure the software to be able to display items that have already been read from X number of days ago.

Best Regards,
Steve MacLellan

Posted by: Steve MacLellan at January 19, 2005 12:08 PM

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