Part of the motivation behind some of my top-level pages like my ideas lists is that I feel some things should have a URL. Giving something a URL gives it a place on the web. One area where I feel this could be applied more is in newsletters. I wish email newsletters had corresponding web feeds to which I could subscribe, and a URL-first approach to content.I prefer to use my email inbox for receiving notifications, account management, and correspondence. I like to sort my inbox such that all the things that relate to an action I need to take (i.e. send a reply) are as prominent as possible.My inbox makes me feel a bit anxious – the pressure to get to a clean inbox weighs on me – and so the fewer things that are in there, the better. I also have a particular association with my inbox: because I garden it to be more focused on communication and notification than newsletters, any time I see I have a new email there is a split-second where I expect the arrival of a new task. I don’t want…
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this is SO REAL omg every time i find a newsletter i wanna read i immediately use one of my microformat extensions to find the RSS feed. it's like the first thing i do after i decide i want to keep reading the newsletter. it's so frustrating that RSS is an afterthought for most newsletters
100% agree! I always use https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to get an RSS feed.
i feel this, a lot of the time i just pass if there isn't an rss/atom feed.
Maybe yes, maybe no. SOME newsletters would work better as RSS feeds for sure, but then I have a separate email address for all my newsletters so I manage it that way. I guess the hierarchy of importance is at play, with newsletters more important to me than blog posts (so the newsletter gets 'allowed' into my mail inbox).