# Using my RSS reader to find travel recommendations > Source: > Published: 2026-08-31 18:53:02+00:00 # Using my RSS reader to find travel recommendations Published on Aug 31, 2026 Admittedly that sounds a bit weird but using the people / blogs / resources you are following in your RSS reader is actually a great filter for narrowing down the search on a given topic. - I already value these people's opinions - I sometimes remember that person x wrote about topic y I'm planning a city trip right now and I was wondering what people I follow in Miniflux (My RSS reader of choice) are writing about that topic so I've set up [an MCP server](https://github.com/tssujt/miniflux-mcp) that can talk to the Miniflux API. Once that was ready I just connected it to my [Hermes Agent](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com) and asked it to summarize which places in London are interesting. As Miniflux doesn't have embeddings or a good vector search the agent is just issuing simple searches like "London" to get all items that could be relevant from Miniflux. Once it has a bunch of candidates it can do deeper research on that specifically and also follow the links mentioned in the feed item. This worked pretty well, even though I realized that I had cleanup enabled on my Miniflux instance, so old articles that are not "starred" are automatically removed. I've changed that now by setting the following Miniflux environment variables. ``` CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_READ_DAYS=-1 CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_UNREAD_DAYS=-1 ```