Reading, Writing and The New Phone
6/24/2024 6:05 am | : 5 mins. | Share to: 
I'm five days into using my S24+ as my daily driver and it's largely fantastic. It's clear how many small things I had come to accept with the Duo 2, and eye opening to realize those things aren't requirements for my daily life anymore.
I also have come to realize I just generally like the process of moving into a new technology device, whether computer, or phone. Looking for new apps, re-examining what I've had installed, etc. I almost didn't transfer apps and such over from the Duo 2 to the new phone at all, but relented out of laziness and not wanting to have to constantly check which app I had been using on the old phone.
I am also re-set upping (I know, that's not a real phrase, but I choose it regardless,) my online reading ecosystem on the new phone. This entails a few things:
- Re-enabling my Wallabag app to pull from my selfhosted instance for my "read it later" reading
- Re-enabling an RSS reader, currently it is Readrop, which is an app which syncs with my FreshRSS instance, though I am reconsidering if I should instead have a mobile-only solution (more on that later.)
- Setting up for posting here from my phone.
Wallabag is the easiest of these to set up. Readrop was nearly as simple, though I forgot FreshRSS required an api specific password and so I kept trying it with the traditional password. Oops.
I have not yet cracked #3 in a satisfying way other than opening the editor for the blog in the phone's browser. Which is fine, but I really need to solve for a way to add my blog's api to the Share menu in Android. I've tried it a few ways through Tasker, but haven't managed it reliably yet. I'll get it eventually.
And before anyone comes with app recommendations. For things like this, I heavily value self-hosting and FOSS apps, over subscription or heavy marketing apps. Though I will always listen to recommendations.
As to the above note regarding my RSS reader, the core issue is that my RSS feeds are currently curated for "maximilism." I am a heavy consumer and as such I have many feeds which share overlaps, which is fine when I'm churning through them on the desktop, but for phone reading I don't want to churn through a lot of these.
The easiest solution is to curate for my phone differently, but doing that would then make my desktop reading potentially worse as it would potentially still contain items I have processed on my phone since they would be pulling from different sources.
We'll see. I need to think on a solution more.
