After the shutdown of Google Reader I was in desperate need of a new feed reader. After using Feedbin for a few months I finally settled on Newsbeuter. It's a beautiful, highly customizable and text based RSS feed reader for your terminal - some even call it the "Mutt of Feed Readers".

After playing around for a while my current setup looks like this:

There are a lot of parameters to tailor it to your needs in the Newsbeuter documentation.

My current .newsbeuter/config looks like this:

{{< gist dewey 8526742 >}}

Installation:

If you are on Mac OS 10.9.x and want to install it via homebrew you'll have to edit the formula so it's using the c++11 branch of the repository because there's a namespace problem with the current branch.

To do that just run a brew edit newsbeuter and replace the line containing head with

head 'https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter.git', :branch => 'c++11'

It should look like this at the time of this writing:

homepage 'http://newsbeuter.org/'
url 'http://newsbeuter.org/downloads/newsbeuter-2.7.tar.gz'
sha1 'e49e00b57b98dacc95ce73ddaba91748665e992c'

head 'https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter.git', :branch => 'c++11'

depends_on 'pkg-config' => :build
...

After editing the formula just brew install homebrew as usual and start editing your config.

Resources:

• newsbeuter.org/doc/
• http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/rss-with-newsbeuter/
• https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/tree/master/contrib