Newsboat ━━━━━━━━ Web browsers are a black hole of productivity. I try to use them as little as possible when it is time to focus. I try to use , , or with ipython, or --help... Date: January 2, 2021 Web browsers are a black hole of productivity. I try to use them as little as possible when it is time to focus. I try to use help, ?, or ?? with ipython, or –help at the command line as much as possible. What about that time I am trying to see what my online friends are posting on their sites? I used to used google reader quite heavily before that was taken down. Newsboat ──────── I am going to give a terminal rss reader a try for a bit and see how that goes for me. I have really struggled to get into an rss reader since google reader died. installation ──────────── I installed with the reccomended snap for Ubuntu. [code] sudo snap install newsboat Adding feeds ──────────── super simple Running help for newsboat directed me towards their config files at the bottom. [code] ❯ newsboat --help newsboat r2.22 usage: /snap/newsboat/3849/usr/local/bin/newsboat [-i <file>|-e] [-u <urlfile>] [-c <cachefile>] [-x <command> ...] [-h]  -e, --export-to-opml export OPML feed to stdout  -r, --refresh-on-start refresh feeds on start  -i, --import-from-opml=<file> import OPML file  -u, --url-file=<urlfile> read RSS feed URLs from <urlfile>  -c, --cache-file=<cachefile> use <cachefile> as cache file  -C, --config-file=<configfile> read configuration from <configfile>  -X, --vacuum compact the cache  -x, --execute=<command>... execute list of commands  -q, --quiet quiet startup  -v, --version get version information  -l, --log-level=<loglevel> write a log with a certain loglevel (valid values: 1 to 6)  -d, --log-file=<logfile> use <logfile> as output log file  -E, --export-to-file=<file> export list of read articles to <file>  -I, --import-from-file=<file> import list of read articles from <file>  -h, --help this help  --cleanup remove unreferenced items from cache  Files:  - configuration: /home/nic/snap/newsboat/3849/.newsboat/config  - feed URLs: /home/nic/snap/newsboat/3849/.newsboat/urls  - cache: /home/nic/snap/newsboat/3849/.newsboat/cache.db  Support at #newsboat at https://freenode.net or on our mailing list https://groups.google.com/g/newsboat For more information, check out https://newsboat.org/ I just need to edit its urls file. [code] nvim ~/snap/newsboat/3849/.newsboat/urls The Urls file is just a list of urls to rss feeds. Adding mine in allowed me to see all of my posts. [code] https://waylonwalker.com/rss.xml Config ────── I took most of my config from a blog post <https://evantravers.com/articles/2020/04/15/reworking-my-rss-reading/> that I found by Evan Travers. It set some sane defaults to the reading width and vim keys. [code] # https://evantravers.com/articles/2020/04/15/reworking-my-rss-reading/ # Hide feeds where all the items are read. show-read-feeds no  # Make the text width readable text-width 50  # Use multiple threads to download all the news faster. reload-threads 11  # browser ~/bin/newsboat-browser.sh # browser "/usr/bin/brave-browser %u"  # unbind keys unbind-key ENTER unbind-key j unbind-key k unbind-key J unbind-key K unbind-key ^D unbind-key ^U unbind-key o unbind-key g unbind-key G  # bind keys - vim style bind-key j down bind-key k up bind-key l open bind-key h quit bind-key ^D pagedown bind-key ^U pageup bind-key b toggle-source-view bind-key U toggle-show-read-feeds bind-key u show-urls bind-key g home bind-key G end bind-key b open-in-browser-and-mark-read bind-key B open-in-browser bind-key i sort bind-key I rev-sort GUI Browser ─────────── No matter how many different guides I tried I keedp getting error code 127 when trying to open-in-browser. Please let me know if you know how to fix this. For now I am just going to roll with it. Here’s how it looks ─────────────────── Image: newsboat feed │ browsing a feed in newsboat Image: newsboat article │ reading an article in newsboat