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News
Headlines from the feeds you actually read. Any RSS or Atom URL.
- needs
- Nothing but a feed URL.
- refreshes
- Every 20 minutes
- sizes
- 3×2 up to 12×6 cells
Any RSS or Atom URL, as many as you want. There is no key, no aggregator sitting in between, and nothing choosing on your behalf which of your feeds is interesting today. You listed them; it shows them.
This is deliberately the opposite of a feed. A desk display that surfaces an endless scroll is a phone with extra steps, and the entire premise of Perch is a screen with no notifications, no browser and nothing to fall into. Headlines rotate, you glance, you go back to work.
It can show which source each headline came from and how long ago it landed, which matters more than it sounds when you are reading three feeds at once and want to know whether something is news or from Tuesday.
what you can set
Every field here is generated from the widget’s manifest, so the settings form exists without anyone having written one.
- The list of feed URLs
- How many headlines to hold
- Show which source each came from
- Show how long ago it landed
Nothing to install.
News ships with Perch. Clone the repo, run the installer, open the console from your laptop or phone, and drag the tile where you want it — the desk screen follows as you drag. If the tile you want is not one of the eight, a widget is one folder of about forty lines and the agent in your terminal can write it.