Joyful Take publishes through the day, every day: one main story and two related reads in each hourly package, all illustrated, all sourced. There are no accounts, no app to install, and no notifications to manage. One quiet way to follow:

RSS, the easy one

The feed is joyfultake.com/feed.xml. Paste that address into any feed reader - Feedly, NewsBlur, NetNewsWire, Inoreader, the RSS reader built into many browsers - and each new story shows up as it publishes. No signup of any kind.

Never used RSS? It is a list of every new article on a site, delivered to one place you check, the way an inbox collects mail from many senders. Pick any reader, add the address above, and you are done.

If you open the feed address in a browser, you will see a friendly list of the newest stories and a note explaining what you are looking at. That page is just for humans; the same address is what the reader apps follow.