how to get folders in newsboat

background

newsboat is a very simple rss reader i have been collecting feeds for a while

problem statement

i don't really want to use something else because i find it fits well into my dumb vim based operating system because it's so simple it doesn't have any kind of built-in categorisation feeds behave differently, and i'm interested in some more than others the files can be organised by their order in a configuration file it also means means that when i refresh all with R it takes ages

how i would organise folders if i had them

topic configuration files

move all the yt feeds from the main urls file to urls-yt

test it with newsboat -u .newsboat/urls-yt-danger-do-not-enter-wastes-time-and-bad-for-u

while invulnerable to tab completion, it does add another layer of containerisation against the Content:tm: machine so it's an immediate improvement

say, this categorisation thing looks kinda useful news-type feeds are torrent-like too so we do the same thing and extract

.newsboat/urls-news-pipe

and also a cache file so we can keep track of what we've already read

.newsboat/cache-news.db

so let's make it feel at home with an alias in ~/.newsboat/alias.sh

alias nbn="newsboat -u ~/.newsboat/url-news -c ~/.newsboat/cache-news.db"

and source in .zsh_aliases