Time–consuming feeds Oct16 '04

RSS feeds are nice, but they often create too much of a burden to keep up with.

If I don’t scan my feeds at least twice a day, I find myself buried with unread posts. And then I end up not reading the majority of them, because it would literally take all day.

I wish there was a way to search through all of my feeds, and have it look for keywords. That way, I can only read the content that pertains to my interests at the moment.

I’m surprised this hasn’t been developed yet.

I have tried developing it myself

I have tried developing it myself. My goal was to dynamically grab all of my RSS feeds, have them inserted into a database that I own, and then be able to search through feeds, from any day, etc.

Since an RSS file is just an XML file, why can’t new feeds be automatically inserted into a database that I own?

It seems plausible, but I have no blueprints yet.

And I realize – by the time I develop something like that, Apple or Macromedia will come out with something far better.

So I’m stuck playing the "waiting game."

I just want a better way to interact with my RSS feeds. The current ways are too time–consuming.

Categories: Efficiency , Organization , RSS

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Very interesting idea. I'd see no problem entering it into a database. I've only really worked with php and the problem with this is the sc ... Read more.

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