As it is, you end with a post from 6 months ago from site A listed above posts from today from site B, C and D. You’d expect feeds to be ordered by date solely, with the most recent unread item being first. Raven orders search results by date (good) but grouped by feed (odd). It’s not a major issue, but would be handy for times you want to view articles on site as they are supposed to look (important given some media can only be viewed on a web page) without Firefox lunging into view. There’s no integration with “read it later” tools like Pocket, and you won’t find quick links to share an article on social media, email it to someone, or copy the URL to your clipboard.Īlthough there is an “open in browser” option there’s no built-in web view (ironic given this is made with Electron). This makes using the app across devices a hassle as the feeds you read on one OS won’t be marked as read on another - and you’ve no options on mobile. The biggest? There’s no integration with cloud-based RSS services like Feedly. It’s still early days for Raven Reader, meaning there are some drawbacks, gaps and caveats.
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You can also bookmark articles as ‘favourites’ to find them at a later date, or save articles for offline reading. It uses “bold” font in headlines to designate unread items and a duller, greyed-out version for read items. Raven’s logical layout makes it easy to quickly sort through feeds based on site, search term or read/unread status. Feedly) it isn’t much effort to get a dump of all your sites in a text file and get it loaded into Raven. If you currently use a different app or service (i.e. You can import (and export) a feed list easily, though. There’s no cloud-service layer in the middle to keep things in sync between devices or platforms. It’s a Local RSS ReaderĪll feeds you add to Raven are stored and managed locally. Helpfully, when adding feeds you have the option to change the site name/label too, handy if you only subscribe to specific sections of a website.Īlas, you can’t rename feeds once added, or adjust their order once added. The size of the first two columns isn’t adjustable but the width of the reading space can be made wider or more compact depending on your needs.Īdding feeds is easy: click the bold blue add button, tap in a site URL and Raven will auto-detect any available feeds. On the right is the “content” area where a plain-text version of each article is presented. In the middle is the “article list” showing article headline, site name, publish date and an easy-to-spot site favicon. On the left is a sidebar listing RSS feed sources and a slate of filter options, including “All Feeds”, “Recently Read” and “Unread only”. One thing Raven has right from the off is its look: it’s clean, with ample spacing, and isn’t crowded up by buttons and toolbars. On the desktop that takes the form of an RSS reader, which consolidates all the latest content, headlines and news from various blogs, sites, and services into one, manageable place - a place designed for reading.Īnd Raven is one such app. The format still has its fans - I’m proudly among them - who often use dedicated apps to stay on top of the latest posts and updates from their favourite blogs, sites and projects.
Though out of fashion with mainstream users RSS is far from being out of use. Outlets instead opt to rack up follows, likes and fans on social media - which makes sense: RSS is passive, while social media is interactive, engaging, and immediate.
The format still has fans and I’m proudly among themīut the popularity of RSS for news distribution is in decline.įew websites or blogs tend to the format as a primary method of delivering content updates to readers nowadays. Though out of fashion with mainstream users, RSS is far from out of use.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a standardised web format for delivering updated web content to whoever wants it via RSS feeds. Not fussed? Me, either, but that will be a deal-breaker for some. In this post I’ll provide you with an overview of what Raven can do, what it can’t do, and how I think it could be even better than (spoiler alert) it already is.īut before we go any further you may want to made aware that this open-source, cross-platform RSS reader is built using Electron.
This week I finally found some time to dig into this deliciously well designed desktop RSS feed reader. Raven is a new open source RSS reader app for Windows, macOS and Linux that I’ve been eager to try out.
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