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My new reading setup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Plus: MacBook Air upgrades, quicker selfies, and delightful to-do lists<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Jared Newman<\/div>
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March 5, 2024<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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Hey folks! This week’s full newsletter is unlocked for everyone. Think about a paid subscription<\/a> if you enjoy it!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I’m obviously a big fan of newsletters, I haven’t always been great at remembering to read them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s because newsletters are inherently at odds with my efforts to keep a clean inbox<\/a>. I seldom have time for them during the day and don’t want them all intermingled with more important messages, but filing those newsletters away into folders just leads to me forgetting about them entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After experimenting with a few different approaches, I’ve finally found a newsletter reading setup that works. It encourages me to stay on top of all my newsletter subscriptions, but still allows for inbox tidiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter Omnivore<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Omnivore<\/a> is a free, open-source app for reading. After creating an account, you get a unique email address (which looks like yourname-jumble0f-l3tters-andnum8ers@inbox.omnivore.app), which you can use to receive newsletters. Your subscriptions then appear in Omnivore’s web app, iOS app<\/a>, or Android app<\/a>, with your progress synced across all devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Omnivore’s iPhone app<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can also bring content into Omnivore in other ways. A free browser extension (for Chrome<\/a>, Firefox<\/a>, and Safari<\/a>) lets you save individual articles from the web to read later, and you can do the same with articles on your phone by using the Share button<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omnivore supports RSS feeds as well, letting you get a firehose of new posts from sites that support this feature<\/a>. And if you have PDF files you’ve been meaning to read, Omnivore lets you import them, provided they’re less than 8 MB in size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I’ve known about Omnivore for some time now, I’ve avoided using it because I didn’t want to re-subscribe to all my newsletters with another email address, let alone an address tied to a specific service that’s not guaranteed to last forever. Everything changed after realizing I could just use my existing email instead, with forwarding rules to pass the newsletters over to my Omnivore address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forwarding newsletters to Omnivore<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Since last summer, I’ve been signing up for newsletters with an email alias<\/a>, then filtering the messages so that everything sent to that address goes into a “Newsletters” folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was great for keeping newsletters out of my inbox, but not so great for actually reading them. I’d often neglect my Newsletters folder for days or weeks, and searching for newsletter content was difficult because the results were mashed up with all my other emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By automatically forwarding those newsletters to my Omnivore address, I get the best of both worlds: Everything still arrives in my “Newsletters” folder for safekeeping, but then another copy also appears in Omnivore for reading. Having the Omnivore app on my phone’s home screen serves as a reminder to read, while my email inbox stays clean. Best of all, I don’t have to re-subscribe to any newsletters with a different email address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Auto-forwarding in Gmail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If I wanted, I could even use another read-it-later app instead of Omnivore, provided it offers its own address for newsletters. (In fact, I’ve been doing just that with Matter<\/a>, whose presentation is a bit slicker than Omnivore but doesn’t have a publicly-available Android app at present.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve set up an alias for newsletters<\/a> (for instance, janedoe+newsletters@gmail.com), the auto-forwarding setup should work something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n