¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

I am amazing at practicing Inbox Zero¹, as well as “RSS Zero”: I tend to read all RSS posts I am subscribed to, from 700+ feeds.

This works well mostly thanks to miniflux global blocklists, which allow me to intentionally exclude topics I’m not interested in². It’s a very basic form of filtering yet it’s quite effective.

That said, sometimes life gets busy and the unread posts counter explodes. As of today, I have almost 1,000 unread posts.

I do not feel comfortable with the idea of “RSS bankruptcy”, which boils down to marking all posts as read.

At the same time, catching up with everything after the counter exceeds a certain threshold transforms the RSS consumption activity from a pleasant leisure activity into a burdensome (and long) journey to reach zero again.

Still, I refuse to use Gen AI to summarize the state of affairs of the unread posts — this would completely degrade the reading experience and nullify the joy of using RSS in the first place.

Currents proposes an interesting middle-ground to address the situation:

Every RSS reader treats your feeds as a to-do list. Current doesn’t.

There are no unread counts. No badge of phantom obligation. Just a river.

Reading should feel like floating, not drowning.

I’ve been meaning to incorporate it into my reading workflow. However, I do not want to switch to Currents; I am quite happy with Miniflux.