Last month I made a tool called the Temporary Obsessions Feed Reader (you can see my writeup here.) The TOFR is a Google Sheets-based tool that lets you schedule your RSS feeds and give them expiration dates. This is a powerful feature when you combine it with keyword-based RSS feeds.

I have used TOFR for monitoring breaking news topics over the short-term, scheduling feeds in advance for a known business-/stock- related deadline, and to “audition” keywords I might be interested in monitoring.

When I wrote about TOFR got a lot of interest, so I did some upgrades to the tool and shared it at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10dVC6gWU2QALmHhpnpTsl5keulljKhHBs8UKeWOqBFg/edit?usp=sharing . Once you’ve made a copy of the sheet, look at the README worksheet for quick instructions on setting it up.

Let me know if you have any questions and enjoy!