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123 · ‘Analog Office’ Blog and Tomoe River Planner Recommendations

Discoveries that came from finally learning how to use RSS!

Ellane W
4 min readSep 23, 2024

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Pencil comic drawing of a figure with a suitcase walking away from a large building toward a small, friendly-looking cottage
Comic sketch by the Author

Feedle lets you search RSS feeds by topic, leading me to discover that Anna Havron’s Analog Office blog perfectly compliments my own work. The Wonderland222 planner is what I’d buy if I was in the market for a paper planner.

No AI here; all words, ideas, and faults 100% human made. While paid subscribers are enormously encouraging and help me to keep writing, non-subscribers are always welcome to read for free on my blog.

RSS and Feedle fed me a super cool blog!

Forget what RSS stands for, what I needed to know as an ignorant noob was what it does. This week I found out!

Find the feed, follow what the person behind it does in the same place as everyone else whose feeds you’re following. It’s like a read-it-later curated newsletter feed where I choose the content.

I’m 2 years old in Mastodon years, but only 2 weeks old as an RSS user. And oh, what a boon!

I mentioned Mastodon because that’s where I felt the push to RSS. People were talking about Feedle with enthusiasm, and proclaiming the…

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Ellane W

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans