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I use a personalised feedreader (running on top of a self-hosted instance of FreshRSS‘s API that handles the RSS subscriptions) since about 4 years. My feedreader allows me to interact with the Web, not just read it. I can post to this blog (and a few other websites) directly from it and keep reading my feeds. Same for adding an annotation to Hypothes.is, and for adding a note in markdown to my filesystem in the folder where Obsidian lives.
Recently I mentioned I want to make my [habit of annotating web postings in my Hypothes.is](https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2025/12/trying-to-build-a-strong…
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I use a personalised feedreader (running on top of a self-hosted instance of FreshRSS‘s API that handles the RSS subscriptions) since about 4 years. My feedreader allows me to interact with the Web, not just read it. I can post to this blog (and a few other websites) directly from it and keep reading my feeds. Same for adding an annotation to Hypothes.is, and for adding a note in markdown to my filesystem in the folder where Obsidian lives.
Recently I mentioned I want to make my habit of annotating web postings in my Hypothes.is easier to keep up. As I wrote then:
… currently from within my feedreader I can post to either my blog or to Hypothes.is, but not both. I want to change that, so that the same thing can serve two purposes simultaneously.
I now have adapted my feedreader interface and related scripts to do just that. It can post to a few websites AND to hypothes.is AND to Obsidian all at the same time now. It used to be either just one of the sites, hypothes.is or Obsidian. Posting to both hypothes.is and Obsidian simultaneously won’t happen a lot in practice as my hypothes.is annotations already end up in Obsidian anyway. I use the saving to Obsidian mostly to capture an entire posting, where I use hypothes.is in my feedreader to just initially bookmark a page so I might return later to annotate more. The current version of the response form in my feedreader is shown below.
One element I added to the interface that I haven’t coded yet in the back-end: posting to my personal and/or my business Mastodon accounts. When that is done, I can write to all the places I write the web, right from where I read it, as in Tim Berners Lee’s original vision:
The idea was that anybody who used the web would have a space where they could write and so the first browser was an editor, it was a writer as well as a reader. Every person who used the web had the ability to write something. It was very easy to make a new web page and comment on what somebody else had written, which is very much what blogging is about.