RSS

What is the RSS Feeds connection?

The RSS Feeds connection lets you follow a source and have everything it publishes saved into Fabric on its own. Add a feed, and each time it puts out a new post, Fabric captures it automatically as a bookmark, scrapes the full page text, and files it in your library. The reading you mean to keep up with stops depending on you remembering to save it. It just arrives.

Most of the things you follow, blogs, news sites, newsletters, publications, live behind tabs you keep open as reminders and forget. This connection turns any of them into a stream that collects itself in one searchable place.

What you get

Every new item, captured for you. Once a feed is connected, Fabric watches it, and each new post is saved automatically. There's no clipping, no forwarding, no remembering, the manual save you'd otherwise do for every article you want to keep is simply handled.

The full text, not just a link. Fabric scrapes the page, so what's captured is the article itself, its full text, and not merely a headline and a URL. That means you can actually search and work with what the piece said, rather than just knowing it exists. (Content behind a paywall is the exception, since it can't be scraped.)

A growing archive of what you follow. Over time, the feeds you connect build into a body of everything the sources you care about have published since you started following them, all in one place instead of scattered across sites and inboxes.

Searchable by meaning, alongside everything else

Captured items aren't a separate list off to one side. They land in your Fabric library and get the same treatment as everything else you save. Every article is searchable by meaning, so you can find a piece by describing what it was about, months later, even if you never read it at the time and don't recall the title or which feed it came from.

They connect outward, too. A post captured from a feed sits alongside the notes, PDFs, and clippings you've saved on the same subject, because Fabric maps the relationships across your whole library. And the AI assistant can work across your captured reading, telling you what's been published on a topic, pulling together what several pieces said, or surfacing the one relevant to what you're working on now. You can read captured items in Fabric's reader as well.

How people use it

Researchers and analysts follow the publications and blogs in their field and let Fabric collect every new piece, so their reading builds into a searchable archive rather than a pile of open tabs.

Founders and operators track competitors, industry news, and the writers they learn from, and find what was published when it becomes relevant, rather than trying to remember where they saw it.

Content creators and marketers follow the sources they draw ideas from, so inspiration and reference collect automatically and stay searchable when it's time to make something.

Anyone with too many tabs points their feeds at Fabric and lets the reading they mean to get to gather in one place, findable by meaning whenever they need it.

Frequently asked questions

What does the RSS Feeds connection do?

It follows an RSS feed and automatically saves every new item it publishes into Fabric, scraping the full page text so the article is captured, not just its link. Everything saved is searchable by meaning alongside the rest of your library.

What can I point it at?

Any RSS feed. A great many sites, blogs, news outlets, and publications offer one, so you can follow most of the sources you read this way.

Does it capture the full article or just a link?

The full article. Fabric scrapes the page, so the piece's text comes in and is searchable, not merely a headline and URL. The exception is content behind a paywall, which can't be scraped.

Do I have to save each post myself?

No. That's the point of the connection. Once a feed is connected, new posts are captured automatically as they're published, with no clipping or forwarding on your part.

Are captured items searchable by meaning?

Yes. They get Fabric's full treatment, semantic search, connections to your other material, and access by the AI assistant, the same as anything else you save.

Can the AI assistant work with my captured reading?

Yes. The AI assistant can tell you what's been published on a topic across your feeds, summarise what several pieces said, or surface the one relevant to what you're doing.

What happens to older posts when I add a feed?

The connection captures new items as the feed publishes them going forward. It's built to keep you current with a source over time, collecting what comes next.

Can I follow more than one feed?

Yes. Connect as many feeds as you like, and Fabric captures across all of them into the same searchable library.

Is my data private?

Yes. Everything in Fabric is encrypted in transit and at rest and is visible only to you. The details are in the privacy and security guide and Fabric's privacy commitment.

Does Fabric work with other sources too?

Yes. RSS Feeds is one of many connections. You can also bring in content from Google Drive, Notion, and Gmail, and search across all of it together.