Are there any RSS reader apps or tools that use AI to summarize topics and trends?

• Inoreader and Feedly Pro+ are both RSS reader apps.
  • Inoreader costs USD 50 per year while Feedly Pro+ costs USD 99 per year for the first year and USD 144 subsequently.
  • Inoreader has Google News+ and Twitter included, whereas Feedly Pro+ has almost the same features.
  • Inoreader requires active search for specific topics to follow, while Feedly Pro+ promises an “Leo-AI assistant”.
  • Inoreader has better keyboard integration and features full article inline, while Feedly Pro+ doesn’t have a similar feature.
  • Inoreader has unlimited subscriptions while Feedly Pro+ only has 5000.
  • Inoreader can generate RSS feeds for websites not offering them, while Feedly Pro+ doesn’t offer this option at all.
  • Inoreader has rules, filters, and regular expressions which make it incredibly powerful, while Feedly Pro+ lacks this feature.
  • Inoreader doesn’t have WordPress integration, whereas Feedly Pro+ has a native WordPress share.
  • Inoreader doesn’t have an AI integration, while Feedly Pro+ features an AI that has article summaries and highlights within articles.
  • Inoreader’s highlights feature showcases specific keywords so that you can scan through RSS river, while Feedly Pro+ has none.
• The Reddit user prefers Inoreader over Feedly because of its powerful features and customer support.
• Inoreader users can manually create filters and rules to refine their search results and get the perfect result.
• Inoreader offers a “highlights feature” which lets users highlight keywords, making it easy to skim through titles and articles quickly.
• Feedly Pro+ offers a Leo AI that recognizes pharmaceutical drugs, cyber security, and other things.
• Inoreader added annotations so you can add a note to an article or a quote.
• Feeder.co offers a 14-day trial to test the service, but a trial for Feedly Pro+ is not available as it costs around $4/user/month to run AI on top of all the articles.

• Description of Summary Box Chrome extension that uses AI to summarize articles:
  • Called “Summary Box”
  • Created by a reddit user
  • Can be used to summarize any article in your browser
  • Summaries are written in the AI’s own words using a state-of-the-art model called GPT-3
  • Can be used to read news, blogs, research papers, school readings, and more
  • Can be triggered any time you view an article, like on Wikipedia or Medium
  • Provides a dropdown with a summary of the page you’re viewing
  • Has a free trial where you can use all features free for 5 days
  • After that, you would have to upgrade, as the AI costs quite a bit to host
  • Some users find it useful for getting a bunch of info in a short amount of time rather than just skimming the headlines
  • Feedback from one user suggests that some summaries were too long or copied word for word
  • One user asked if there was a feature to summarize YouTube videos and what makes Summary Box different from other tools
  • Upsum.io is mentioned as another tool to summarize any text like articles, research papers, even books in PDF format.
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• Best tools to summarize and analyze large amounts of text?
  • Reddit post from 3 years ago in r/LanguageTechnology with 4 points
• User is searching for a tool to summarize and extract important info from collected text on chronic illness research
• Text data includes ebooks, webpages, text files, etc and doesn’t have much jargon
• Online text summarizers have too many limits and leave out important info
  • Intellexer is an example of a tool that leaves important info out
• User heard that Agolo is a good summarizer but can’t try it since it doesn’t offer a free trial
• Commenters suggest various tools, including:
  • CX_DB8, a word level, queryable, extractive summarization tool with configurable underlining and highlighting
    • One commenter also suggests using embeddings trained on pubmed, like Elmo and Flair
  • Windows alternative to CX_DB8 requested by a user
  • Summarizer demo offered by another commenter, who suggests that they can be DM’ed for further discussion

• Relevant Information from Webpage:
  • There is an AI tool called “Intelligent Tagging Text Analytics” by Refinitiv that can summarize and extract important data from articles.
  • The tool extracts all people places things, return an Rdf document with keyword, topics, and dates and times of events and locations.
  • TLDR bot on r/worldnews does something similar to summarize news articles.
    • TLDR bot uses “Smmry”.
  • Wikipedia articles have a “simple version” that summarizes complex content.
• None.

• Reddit user asked for an AI text summarizer online tool
  • Most online AI tools to summarize articles, papers or long text are terrible
  • Two services that claim to use GPT-3 are paid and one is very expensive: https://sassbook.com/ai-summarizer and https://tldrthis.com/
  • Reddit user tested GPT-3 tools online with a very limited text input area
  • GPT3 can’t summarize anything longer than 2048 tokens
  • For long documents, at a minimum, you need to preprocess or break into chunks
  • The computing time needed for the key innovation, the self-attention module, scales quadratically, so the numbers get big very fast.

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Are there any open-source RSS reader apps or tools that use AI to summarize topics and trends?

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Are there any other RSS reader apps or tools that use AI to summarize topics and trends?

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Does Inoreader have any integration with AI-powered summarization?

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Does Feedly have any integration with AI-powered summarization?

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What features does ContentStudio offer to summarize topics and trends?

• The webpage lists the top 17 RSS Feed Reader Apps for 2023, but most of them do not use AI to summarize topics and trends.
• ContentStudio is an RSS reader app that uses AI to curate content from feeds and share it across social media channels. It offers an intuitive interface with powerful content discovery and management tools.
  • Cover stories showcase the most trending posts from every topic for that day, making it easy to keep up with the latest developments in your areas of interest.
  • It allows you to curate content from feeds and share them directly across your social media channels.
  • You can tag each post and archive them, making it simple to organize and access content as and when you need it.
  • It offers a unique feature that sets it apart from the competition – the ability to curate content from feeds and share it directly across your social media channels.
• Other RSS Reader Apps in the list:
  • Feedly, Feedreader, Flowreader, Inoreader, Feedspot, Netvibes, The Old Reader, Feeder, G2 Reader, Selfoss, NewsBlur, Bloglovin, CommaFeed, GoodNews, Flipboard, RSSOwl.
  • None of these specifically mention the use of AI to summarize topics and trends.

• Reddit users discussed free RSS feed readers 2 years ago on /r/androidapps
  • Most RSS feed reader apps have features locked behind subscription
  • Feedly and Inoreader were mentioned often
  • Some users provided alternative, open-source options:
    • Feeder (F-Droid)
    • Fluent Reader (GitHub), a multi-platform RSS reader with a UI based on Microsoft Fluent, which can integrate with multiple feed services
    • Newsblur, which isn’t completely free, but its free version has a limit of 64 feeds, which is enough for most users
    • Thunderbird, which one user recommended for its simplicity
  • One user was interested in whether any of the feed readers are open source. Another answered that FeedMe isn’t, but it can fetch feeds from servers like Inoreader and has filters.

• An AI-powered RSS reader called nooshub.com was created to help reduce mess in the feed.
  • It lets users build as many custom feeds from any RSS-feed out there
  • The AI uses machine learning to detect similar articles in the custom feeds
  • It builds groups from these similar articles, that are initially collapsed, which reduces the mess in the feed
  • Groups with many articles are promoted at the top, which displays trending news
• The algorithm needs more data, especially in languages other than English and for special topics.
• The webpage provides the following international news page and tech news page:
  • International news page: https://www.nooshub.com/pages/7
  • Tech news page: https://www.nooshub.com/pages/5
• Nooshub offers a paid plan for $2.50/month (if paid yearly) or $3/month.
  • The paid plan was necessary because the technology requires a lot of resources.
• There were various comments from Reddit users congratulating the developer of Nooshub and expressing interest in trying it out.

• Feedly and Inoreader are popular RSS readers that can monitor standard RSS feeds and Google alerts but not social media pages like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

  • Inoreader has integration with YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

  • Google Alerts can be set up in your own Google account settings to generate RSS feeds which can be subscribed to in any reader of your choosing.

  • Instagram content in an RSS feed is hard to reproduce as every service that has provided it for free has been shut down at some point. Instagram does not like content scrapers and actively makes changes to avoid it.

• Nodetics provides an RSS reader called Feedbro which can monitor standard RSS feeds, Google alerts, and social media pages like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

• BazQux Reader is another RSS reader that supports RSS feeds (including those from Google alerts) and social media pages (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Telegram). However, you need to get the RSS link from Google Alerts to create keyword alerts as there is no such integration in BazQux Reader.

• Reeder 5 is an RSS app that has had some issues loading articles properly, though some users have different experiences
• Most RSS apps will only show as much of an article as is in the publication’s RSS feed, which often includes only a snippet and a link to the full article on the website
• Some Reddit users recommend using reader view or automatic reader view to fix the issue of articles appearing improperly
• Lire is an RSS app that offers “full-text RSS”, which means that it may be more effective at displaying full articles
  • However, it comes with a higher price tag
• NetNewsWire is another RSS app that users have found effective, but it doesn’t offer thumbnail previews
• A user on Reddit also recommended News Explorer, which offers customization and syncing across devices via iCloud
• Other users on Reddit shared their experiences with various RSS apps and recommended trying out different options to find what works best for a user’s needs

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