Google Alerts is unpredictable and clutters your inbox, and checking dozens of sites by hand takes time. Readine sends a push notification or an email when the right word appears in your feeds.
The more sources you have, the harder it is to keep up by hand. With hundreds of subscriptions, more than a thousand publications pile up in a week: reading everything is impossible, and what you need gets lost along the way.
Filtering and keyword notifications help: a topic, a document, a program or a role name.
Create a rule: enter keywords, pick the feeds (or all of them at once), set an action — send a notification, add to favourites, delete, mark as read and so on.
You can add different types of sources: RSS, Telegram channels, YouTube, Substack and more.
Notifications are grouped. Push notifications are batched into a window from 1 minute to 1 day, emails into one from 3 hours to 1 day, with a list of links.
Limitation: feeds are checked periodically. The minimum interval starts at 5 minutes. Rules do not support regular expressions. A rule matches words literally, inflections aside, and does not search by meaning: Readine has no semantic search and no built-in AI. For automation, export to files and use your own scripts or AI.
| What you track | What to put in a rule |
|---|---|
| Topic and industry | the name of a topic, a company or a technology |
| Regulatory documents | the number or the name of a document, the word “changes” |
| Vulnerabilities and patches | the severity level or the name of a product |
| Jobs and orders | the name of a role, a technology or a stack |
| Research publications | a method, a drug or a study phase |
Sources are sorted into folders — by field, project or author. A folder has its own list of feeds, so you can see what is new in one area at a time.
Tags are assigned by topic: one publication can belong to several topics at once. The tag view pulls such publications from different feeds into one list, even across folders.
One rule can apply to all feeds at once, or only to the ones you pick.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Folders | sort sources by field and project |
| Tags | tag a publication by topic when one folder is not enough |
| Rules | remove the excess and send a notification |
| Favourites | put aside a publication you need to come back to |
| Notes | keep a thought about this publication |
| Search | find in the archive by text, notes and tags |
Q: Does monitoring cover the whole internet?
A: No. A rule works on the sources you added: RSS, Telegram channels, YouTube, Substack and private feeds. You won’t get noise from elsewhere in your notifications — but you won’t see anything outside your sources either.
Q: How many words can I put in a rule?
A: 30 words per rule, up to 5 levels of nested conditions per rule; the number of rules depends on your plan.
Q: Is there an API for automation?
A: No. Readine has no public API. Rules are configured through the app interface.
Q: Can a rule be tied to a folder?
A: A rule is not tied to a folder. You can pick several feeds, for example all the feeds of one folder.
Q: Can I send notifications to colleagues?
A: No, email goes to the account owner’s address. You can forward it manually.