This day was also… The Day I Started to Use My iPhone for RSS Again In the quoted article I also promised to introduce to you an application which handles “updating” a virtually deprecated custom share sheet for iOS 8 in a smart way. But for now, they still are the swiss-army knife for iOS automation. This way we can use the best of both worlds.Īdmitted, the more powerful and versatile extensions become, the more redundant URL schemes will be. Those which will function as a bridge between the x-callback-url protocol and existing native integrations. The best solution for power-users are the kind of apps we will hopefully see more more of in the future. To conclude, for the way I work within iOS, the current state of inter-app communication is superb, but not sufficient for my particular needs. That’s also the reason I wrote “why we still need URL schemes when iOS 8 brings the sharing dialog to every app” and came to the following conclusion: While having more options with better integrations is indeed part of the solution to my filing woes, some essentials still are only possible when using URL schemes. Happy end? Well, we’re not quite there yet. All I had to do was switch from Unread to another app which support the native share sheet. Finally I could use my favorite Pinboard client ( Pushpin) and add a link. So, with iOS 8 finally having a better native sharing dialog things did become easier and indeed made a lot of my actions dispensable. 1, don't talk to me unless you have a NES scepter. If you want to take the reigns and become Nintendo's fanboy no. ![]() Typically, an article which is a link list candidate gets formatted as (1) a Markdown list entry with a Markdown link, (2) followed by another list entry which is indented and (3) has an interactive prompt so that I can provide a little summary for the link: - Example: () The custom share sheet from Unread didn’t make this any easier. I always had to jump through hoops when I found an interesting article which I wanted to include in my link list here on RocketINK. Whilst Unread is an excellent reader, I felt limited by its filing capabilities. I read a lot, but I also file away many articles for dealing with them later on, when I have more time at hand. My app of choice was Unread for a long time. On the iPhone, there was no satisfying way for me to read RSS. The actions I use with the Mister are the same as those on my Mac. The form factor of the iPad and the versatility of Mr. Reader, an excellent RSS reader (which I happen to had the chance to design the icon for) is my weapon of choice. ![]() Fore ReadKit I have a set of Keyboard Maestro macros - all linked in the post above - which I use to file interesting articles into one of my many buckets. On the Mac, I use ReadKit which has proven to be an excellent reader - it also receives updates more frequently than the RSS crowds darling, Reeder. ![]() Well, at least until I discovered Fiery Feeds by Lukas Burgstaller to managing RSS being a topic of special interest to me, let us go a little bit further back in time, because I have… Three Devices, but Only One Way of Dealing With RSS Especially the experience of the latter was missing on my iPhone. When talking about consuming and working with RSS feeds, I’m a creature of habit: the client and reader have to be customizable, sync has to work and the one thing that is of the utmost importance to me, I simply can’t picture myself in a world where I can’t file RSS articles like I’m used to.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |