Rho Reader

A Reading Companion for Obsidian 🌸📚

RSS Feeds · Reading Lists · Your Notes — all in one place

Rho was derived from Rhododendron after I discovered the existence of these beautiful flowers in a bedtime story.

🚀 Features

• Built on top of Obsidian Bases.
• Supports RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed formats.
• Import and export OPML.
• Tagging system to organise reading lists.

💡 How to Use

Note: The screenshots below may be outdated and might not reflect the latest version of the plugin.

Browse feeds

Browsing the RSS/Atom feeds that you follow is just browsing an Obsidian Base managed by Rho.

View Unread feeds

This is as simple as switching to "Unread" view of the Obsidian Base managed by Rho.

Add RSS feeds

Adding RSS feed is just adding a feed_url property to any Obsidian note in your vault.

Mark as Unread

By default, when you click on a post to read it, Rho will mark it as read. If you wish to mark it as unread, you can do it via right-click.

🛠️ Installation

Rho Reader is under active development and not yet published in the Obsidian community plugin store. So you'll need to install it manually.

Option 1: Download zip

1. Go to the Releases page.
2. Download rho-reader.zip from the latest release.
3. Extract the zip file.
4. Copy the rho-reader folder to your vault's plugins directory: <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/
5. Restart Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins.

Option 2: Build from source

cd <path-to-your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins
git clone git@github.com:scriptnull/rho-reader.git
cd rho-reader
npm install
npm run build