glorifiedgluer

My setup might not be exactly what you are looking for, but could be close enough:

1. For Atom/RSS feeds, I use elfeed-org[0]. (including YouTube channels). You can also use elfeed-tube[1] to watch videos on mpv without accessing the website. 2. For spaced-repetition, I also use org-drill[2], this makes it easy to take notes while reading PDFs with pdf-tools[3]. 3. For priority tracking, I use the builtin org-agenda with org-super-agenda[4] to create "views" based on some metadata[5].

This is all done in the same plain text format (org files) and synced in a Git repository.

[0]: https://github.com/remyhonig/elfeed-org

[1]: https://github.com/karthink/elfeed-tube

[2]: https://melpa.org/#/org-drill

[3]: https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools

[4]: https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda

[5]: https://gluer.org/blog/2023/simple-org-mode-setup-things-don...

> Keeps my blood boiling as now every email provider has its own API.

I can relate to this, I'm yet to find a way to connect my $CURRENT_JOB Office 365 to Gnus...

> Anyway, what email providers do people use today?

I personally use mailbox.org and never had a problem with SMTP.