Has Times from Acrylic Changed My Habits?
I challenged myself a few weeks back to completely switch my RSS reading habits over to the Acrylic Times RSS reader. I have noted in a couple of my previous posts here and here that I had found some some immediate benefits to the amount of time I was spending with RSS feeds.
I am happy to announce that weeks later I continue to find benefit in this new style of reading. For example, I spend less time leafing through feeds in google reader. I noticed a number of other people who have tried Times felt that they were suddenly unburdened by unread count syndrome. Like most people who needs another email like reminder that we are falling behind. I also switched my reading style on my iPhone to subscribe to a few safari based RSS feeds. The list is very small and only includes those sites with immediate to the point news, with a small number of daily articles.
So what is the next step? Well, I would suggest that the Acrylic folks think about building a version of Times for the iphone as a native application. It would be very interesting to see the same style of RSS overview on the iPhone. Perhaps some kind of zoom into and out of article with a double tap to show the details like the current Times page curl effect.
