Subscribe everything with one tool

Facing tons of information everyday, I prefer focusing on some of them. I use tool to bunch information and for me, there are 2 requirements for the tool:

• Check if my subscriptions are up to date.
• Keep eyes on different platforms. It is usually not that easy to find RSS feed, let alone other platforms like twitter, youtube, medium, etc. which a sign-up is always required for specific contents, grabbing unnecessary attention in account management.

Almost every RSS reader I tried can do the 1st thing but it surprised me that I found none of them could meet my 2nd requirement perfectly (to some extent). So I created satsie.

In simple, satsie would just do 1 thing once setup: compare a source between 2 timestamps, at the HTML level. And that’s why it can catch updates unless there’s a mask on the site.

On top of a simple installation, I set up a cronjob to get email notification once there’s an update. Here’s my OS and what I did:

My OS:

$ sw_vers
ProductName:   Mac OS X
ProductVersion:    10.14.4
BuildVersion:  18E226

What I did:

1. Created a mail trigger called weekly.sh in the dir satsie/bin
2. Set the trigger as a cronjob. Mine is every Saturday at 8 PM:

satsie $ crontab -e
0 20 * * 6 . /Users/yuqing.ji/satsie/bin/weekly.sh

And the mail in the mailbox:

Originally published at https://gniquyij.github.io/.