Watch RSS & YouTube feeds

Point a workflow at any RSS/Atom feed or YouTube channel and new entries become sources in your library automatically.

The Watch Feed workflow action keeps a feed and your library in sync: every time it runs, it fetches the feed, figures out which entries it hasn’t seen before, and saves each new one as a link source - optionally straight into a notebook. Pair it with a Schedule trigger and your reading list fills itself.

Set it up

  1. Go to Workflows and create a workflow.
  2. Choose the Schedule trigger and pick how often to check (hourly and daily are typical; feeds rarely need more).
  3. Add the Watch Feed action and configure it:
Setting What it does
Feed URL Any RSS 2.0 or Atom feed.
Notebook ID (optional) New sources are added to this notebook.
Max new items per run Caps each run (1–50, default 10). The first run imports up to this many of the latest entries; later runs import only what’s new.

Watching a YouTube channel

Every YouTube channel has a hidden Atom feed:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

Find the channel ID on the channel’s About page (or in the page source as channelId), drop the URL into Feed URL, and new uploads arrive as video sources - transcribed and searchable like anything else you save.

How it behaves

  • No duplicates. Notebooker remembers which entries it has imported for each feed, so re-runs and overlapping schedules are safe.
  • Bulk-lane processing. Feed imports run at low priority - they never queue ahead of things you save by hand, and they skip the quick-podcast option.
  • Credit-aware. Each imported link uses AI credit like any other source. If your credit runs out mid-run, the action stops and reports how far it got; unimported entries stay unseen and import on a later run once credit is back.
  • Auto-snapshot applies if you’ve enabled it in Settings, same as any other new source.