I was reading a post from Steve Vore where he asked for recommendations about RSS tools – readers and writers. I couldn’t help but tell him about my favorite tools (which I’ve mentioned on here before, but I’ll mention them on here again)
“I went on a quest similar to yours a while back - looking for a good reader and a good editor. Here's what I like. In the reader category, I can't say enough good things about JetBrains Omea Reader (www.jetbrains.com). It's free if you get it quickly - they're going to charge soon. It has offline reading - indexed in a database so searches are lightning fast. It goes beyond simple folder organization of feeds with a workspace concept - where you can group feeds together and only see the ones you're interested in. For example, I have 60 feeds total, but I have a .Net workspace with only 25 feeds in it. I have a News workspace with 4 feeds in it. I can look at these workspaces to focus my blog reading energies. Omea reader is also great b/c it does more than just RSS. It is also a NewsReader, so if you want to follow newsgroups, you can subscribe to them and see them in the same window with your blogs. You can even sort them into workspaces. For example, I've subscribed to the two Microsoft Tablet news groups. Omea will also keep up with bookmarks for you, so if you have a favorite website that hasn't caught on to the RSS phenomenon yet, you can keep yourself up to date here as well. If you shell out the cash for the Pro version of the Omea product, it will also receive e-mail. I haven't done this for the exact reason you want to get your RSS out of Outlook. Time management.
On the editor side of things, I wholeheartedly recommend BlogJet (www.blogjet.com). It works really well - allows Rich text editing of posts with a tab to edit HTML when the occasion warrents it. Spellchecking in multiple languages. It integrates into IE so you can open it when reading an interesting page and blog about it while it's fresh in your mind. User profile controls allow you to connect to many different blogs, with over 20 different blog engines supported. Drafts are supported (and I use that all the time) and the developer(s) are pretty responsive to change requests. I use this tool almost as much as I use Outlook.”
— Matt Ranlett
posted with BlogJet