Well Read - An Inkwell Client for Android

When Manton mentioned that Inkwell has an API, I… um… may have vibe-coded an Android client.

It's called "Well Read", which is not a great name but better than "Inkwell Client" which was the working title. Much like Inkwell, it follows the river approach to RSS. There's a Today tab and Recent tab, each showing a portion of the entries in reverse chronological order. Today shows all the posts from today, plus the last 6 hours of yesterday. The motivation here is that this will be the tab you'll be spending your time, with posts aging out to recent over time. There's no Fading tab: all posts older than about half a week fall out of the app. And I'm not sure if i'm going to add one. There's only a few feeds that I want to catch up on if I miss their post, and since I'm using NetNewsWire and Inkwell, I'm pretty sure I'll catch them later.

At the moment this is pretty bare bones. There's no bookmarks (yet), you can't add feeds, there's no search, and only a few actions you can perform on a post: copy the link, mark it as unread, and open it in the external browser. The webview itself is a little janky too, which is not great, and I need to do something about that as it does impact the reading experience.

But so far it's been pretty good. Feels the time when all I have is a phone to read stuff, like during lunch or while commuting.