Almost every site that publishes anything has a feed, whether it advertises one or not. Give Ledgable the site’s address and it usually finds the feed itself; when it cannot, these are the places a feed hides.

The short version

1. Copy the address of the site, the newsletter, the channel or the show.
2. In Ledgable, open Incoming and choose Add a feed by URL under Local Feeds, or paste it into your feed server’s own Add page. Both accept a plain site address and go looking for the feed.
3. If nothing is found, try the address patterns below.

Where feeds hide

• WordPress sites — add /feed/ to the address. Every WordPress site has one, including every Ledgable site: yoursite.com/ledger/feed.xml.
• Substack — add /feed to the publication’s address.
• Ghost, Medium, Blogger, Tumblr, Squarespace — /rss or /feed. Medium is medium.com/feed/@name.
• Mastodon — add .rss to a profile address.
• Bluesky — bsky.app/profile/handle/rss for any public account.
• Reddit — add .rss to a subreddit or user page.
• GitHub — a project’s releases page plus .atom.
• YouTube — every channel has one; see YouTube as a feed.
• Podcasts — the show’s feed address is on its host page, or search the open podcast index from The Listen. See Music, podcasts and audio.
• News sites — look for an RSS link in the footer, or try /rss, /feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml, /index.xml.

Sites with no feed at all

Open RSS makes a feed for many pages that lack one: put openrss.org/ in front of the address. For anything else, hold a link in The Net and send it to the Later List; the list is itself a feed, so a site you check by hand still ends up in the same reader.

Newsletters

An email newsletter is a feed wearing a disguise. Kill the Newsletter gives you a throwaway email address and a feed address; subscribe with the email, read in Ledgable with the feed. Make one inbox per newsletter so you can drop one without dropping the rest. Some large platforms refuse those addresses; then the newsletter can stay in Mail, where Links → Later turns each issue’s links into feed entries anyway.

Finding good ones

Blogrolls are back: many personal sites list who they read, and each one is a feed. The Ledgable directory is a list of ledgers, each with a feed. And if you would rather start from a list someone already sorted, MichaelFilter is one.

Learn the idea

Never used RSS? About Feeds explains it in one page. The video below is a good half hour on why people are coming back to it.

Watch: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to RSS