@hi_mayank I have accounts with both Omnivore & Raindrop & am currently using Omnivore daily, probably because I started it using it first.
Generally I really like Omnivore, super easy to save & categorize links. Nice integration w/Omnivore. I don't love that there's no export to CSV option, and the attitude in Discord is pretty much "just use Omnivore or the API".
Raindrop has more flexible export options + IFTTT integrations, which might make it a better option for non-techy people.
I just looked in Discord and found this:
"Hey this is an interesting way of doing it. We actually do have an OPML API also but we haven't exposed it on the web, just because I don't think our handling of lots of RSS feeds is great yet."
@hi_mayank one thing I forgot to mention about Omnivore that I don't love, they have an active "ai-ideas" channel in their Discord. That's one of the reasons I decided to look at Raindrop tbh.
I'm already 500+ saved articles in so I'm gonna stick around for awhile. But yeah, really bummed to see that. At least I do weekly extract and could probably easy move to Raindrop (unless they're doing some AI nonsense too?)
this kind of lock-in is the big thing i'm trying to avoid. like, i could just use the reading list and bookmark features built into the browser, but i may not use the same browser one year from now. so i want something that can work more like a markdown file in obsidian.
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