Read it later alternatives after Omnivore shutting down

When Omnivore’s apps shut down, many people were uncertain about how to read, highlight, and archive their RSS feeds, newsletters, PDFs, and digital articles.

While I was excited about Omnivore’s acquisition by Eleven Labs, it also made me rethink my digital system for consuming newsletters and articles.

After some experimentation, I ended up with this setup:

• Raindrop for reading and annotating online articles

• Obsidian Web Clipper for archiving content I want to revisit

• Zotero for reading and annotating PDFs and EPUBs

• Meco for managing newsletters

• NetNewsWire for RSS feeds

The Process

The loss of Omnivore as a central hub added a few extra steps—and a bit of friction—to my process. But after a few months, I’ve realised that this friction makes me more intentional about what I read.

Here’s how my typical workflow looks now: Everything gets saved and tagged in Raindrop—RSS feeds, articles, social media posts, and even links to newsletters (the “View in browser” link is especially useful). Its clutter-free reading interface, particularly on mobile, makes it easy to highlight, delete, and organise content.

I use custom tags to keep things organised: one for items I want to archive in Obsidian, another for things I need to find later—like a book or a concert. Raindrop’s built-in filters also help me navigate my library, sorting by content type (videos, audio, links, images, articles), notes or highlights, and even duplicate content.

From there, I use the Obsidian Web Clipper to archive selected items in Obsidian, where I add a few more tags and sort them into folders.

Raindrop

Raindrop is a bookmarking and read-it-later app that allows you to add tags, notes, and highlights to every saved link. Features like batch processing, tag merging, collections, and an AI-powered tagging system can help you automate organisation. For those who like reminders, Raindrop can resurface saved items so they don’t get forgotten. It’s available across all major operating systems.

Obsidian Web Clipper

The official web clipper is a true power tool for digital archiving. One can create custom templates for different websites set rules, and filters. Also can use AI to interact with the saved page. Like the note-taking app Obsidian everything is saved nicely in Markdown. To be honest, I’m not using it at its full potential yet.

You can browse and use these templates maintained by the community.

Zotero

The reference manager Zotero was my default app for reading and annotating PDFs. With their last update, the seventh version, you can read, highlight and create notes on Epubs. The Android app, currently in beta, is a good companion on the go, having the most essential features.

Meco

Think of Meco as the newsletter-only Omnivore. You can connect your Gmail account, and all newsletters will be forwarded in the app, or you can use their custom email address. Also, bookmarking, creating groups, and making notes and highlights are possible.

Net News Wire

Net News Wire is a free RSS manager for Apple devices that can be synced via iCloud. Supports different intervals to check for new content, can create folders with feeds, and can fetch the whole content on an item. It’s the perfect tool for your RSS needs. And yes, you can add unlimited feeds.

In the end

With Omnivore’s shutdown, I had to rethink my reading and archiving workflow. While it introduced some extra steps, this new setup—using Raindrop for bookmarking, Obsidian for archiving and notetaking, Zotero for PDFs and EPUBs, Meco for newsletters, and NetNewsWire for RSS—has made me more intentional about what I consume.