Articles that mention "RSS by Zapier"

Add a little light to your day

A lot of automation, and a lot of writing about automation, is focused on making your job easier. While that's our primary goal here at Zapier, there's always room for using automation to make the rest of your life better, while you're at it.

Find Out When Your Website is Linked to on Reddit

Want to find out every time your website is linked to on Reddit? It turns out Reddit offers an RSS feed for just that. Here's how to find that feed and how to use it to add notifications for Reddit mentions to Slack or almost any other app.

Turn any website into an email newsletter

Email is the internet's last bastion against the algorithm. Every other website and app decides which things you will or will not see, and in which order you'll see them. Your inbox doesn't work that way—which is amazing. 

The journalist's guide to tracking social media mentions on Slack

Journalists know that conversations about their work are happening all over the web. Keeping up with those conversations allows your team to participate in them, and can sometimes lead to ideas for future articles.

Freelancers: Keep Track of Your Articles in a Spreadsheet or Note Taking App

I used to be a freelance journalist, writing about technology for sites like Digital Trends and How-to Geek. I loved the flexibility of being a freelancer, but hated keeping track of articles so that I could send out invoices. So I automated it.

Get official COVID-19 updates in your inbox every day

Keeping up with the news right now is stressful—but it's also never been more important. One thing I've found helpful is reading information directly from primary sources.

3 ways to stay informed without becoming overwhelmed

There's a lot going on right now.

4 popular ways to use RSS by Zapier

Sometimes you want total control over what you consume on a website, without an algorithm or newsletter telling you what's important. RSS feeds let you make your own choices about what you want to read.

Find out when your Twitter handle is mentioned in a news article

"Twitter reacts" is an entire genre of news articles. If you're active on Twitter you've probably been featured in one, whether you realize it or not. A recently-viral tweet pointed out that you can use Google News to find out.

How to make a Twitter RSS feed

Twitter used to include an RSS feed on each Twitter profile but removed it several years ago. Fortunately, it's not hard to make your own RSS feed for a Twitter account, searches on Twitter, or mentions of a hashtag or user.