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Following sources, podcasts and radio

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Besides saving individual links, Tagsora can follow sources that publish regularly: blogs and outlets over RSS, podcasts and radio stations. Everything lives in the same library and plays from the same queue.

1. The idea: What’s new is a tray, not your library

What your sources publish lands in What’s new, a separate tray. You read it, listen to it or let it go. Only what you save enters your library; the rest retires on its own after a few months and does not count against your link quota.

It is the opposite of a classic RSS reader, where every new article is a reading debt. Here, what you do not save takes no space and does not chase you.

2. Following a blog or an outlet

Three ways:

  • From the catalogue: under Sources → Discover there is a short selection of blogs and outlets by category, the same one you can browse in the public directory.
  • By pasting its address: the feed URL or the website URL both work; Tagsora finds the feed on its own.
  • By importing your OPML: if you come from another reader, export your subscriptions as OPML and import them in one go under Sources → Import subscriptions. Your folders are kept as categories.

The free plan lets you follow 30 sources across blogs, podcasts and stations. You can pause a source without unfollowing it.

3. Podcasts

Podcasts are sources like any other, with two extras.

Finding them. The search queries the open Podcast Index, where practically any show with a public feed is listed. Before following one you can open its preview: the latest episodes, with a ▶ to listen without subscribing. There is also a curated catalogue by category.

Transcripts. When the show publishes its transcript (more and more do), Tagsora treats it as the text of an article: it opens in reader mode, it is searchable by meaning, it can be summarised, asked about with the assistant and highlighted. And timestamped paragraphs jump into the audio: tap a sentence and the episode moves there. Episodes without a transcript play just the same; they simply have no text.

Listening. The player works in the background and with the screen off, remembers where you were in each episode and marks as listened what you finish. If the podcaster highlights a moment of an episode, the preview shows it and you can play just that clip.

None of this has a quota, on any plan. The audio never passes through Tagsora: your device plays it straight from the show’s server.

4. Live radio

Under Sources → Discover → Stations you can search by country and by name across thousands of stations (the open Radio Browser directory). A station is saved like any other link and plays from the same queue. Being live, there is no position to remember and no episode to mark.

5. Saving an episode or an article from What’s new

Saving something from What’s new moves it into your library with everything that entails: tags, search, summaries, highlights and collections. A saved episode can be added to the listening queue next to the articles you want read aloud.

6. Unfollowing and exporting

Unfollowing a source does not delete what you saved from it. Your subscriptions are part of your account’s full export, also as an OPML file to take to another reader.

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