[pendenthistory]

I would like a weekly physical Sunday paper with some general news and printed substack articles tailored to me.

[mghackerlady]

Subscribe to a few RSS feeds you like, and set up a cron job or something to send an assortment of them to your printer every sunday

[appplication]

I’ve been kicking around an idea for a while now that’s basically a no-headlines, curated (generally long-form) media aggregation site. No algorithm, no personalization, no AI. Just topics you can choose to follow.

The basic idea is you get one article at a time fed to you (no headline scrolling like Reddit or HN), and doesn’t let you proceed to the next article until you’ve scrolled through at least x% of the current article or spent a minimum time threshold reading it. Maybe allow a limited number of “skips” per day if the content really isn’t for you. Basically the idea is to force you to slow down and actually engage with the content by removing mechanisms that promote mindless scrolling and dopamine rush.

[duskdozer]

I don't use it, but I saw this similar idea on here before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35795388

[mghackerlady]

I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to write an RSS reader that does this

[SSLy]

the closest thing is doing that to an epub to be sent to your e-paper device.