Cortex

Of course you can also just keep cortex as it is and browse the global reddit frontpage as usual.

Configuring cortex to display your personal frontpage and monitor your unread messages is easy, just create a file called ~/.cortex/config, retrieve your personal reddit json links (Located in Preferences -> RSS feeds ) and put them in the config. It will look something like this:

Since rss readers can get cluttered and are not the same as the actual reddit homepage, cortex will allow you to stop refreshing the reddit page all the time while sticking to the same paradigm as the usual reddit frontpage would.

Cortex is a simple application to keep track and browse through reddit article lists where one would usually need to open a web browser and possibly use a mouse to navigate.

You can also clone the git repository and simply copy the cortex binary to a folder in your path.

If you are an arch linux user, there is a package available at the arch user repository at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cortex-git/

Manual

Note that all of this information can be accessed by invoking cortex --help as well.

Usage: cortex [SUBREDDIT] An ncurses reddit browser and monitor. You can optionally specify a subreddit to display initially over the commandline. Keys: q Quit cortex and go back to the terminal. r Update/Refresh the cortex listing from reddit. m Toggle between full and minimal display mode. o / Return Open the currently selected link in the browser. c Open the comments page for the currently selected link in the browser. t Open both the currently selected link and the comments page in the browser. i Open the reddit messages inbox in the browser. h Jump to the frontpage listing. s Prompt for a subreddit to display the listing for. f Jump to the subreddit the currently selected article is in. Alternatively, when already viewing a subreddit, jump back to the frontpage. l Mark all articles in the list as read. / Prompt for searching reddit. Up / k Move one entry up the list. Down / j Move one entry down the list. 0 / g / Home Go to the first entry in the list. $ / G / End Go to the last entry in the list. Control+B / Page Up Move one page up the list. Control+F / Page Down Move one page down the list. Configuration: See config.example for an example configuration file to put in ~/.cortex/config, the following options are available: frontpage=http://reddit.com/.json Frontpage json url, substitute your personal one here if you want cortex to display your own subreddit subscriptions. inbox= Unread messages json url, put your personal one here if you want cortex to display your unread message count. sort=-read Field to sort the entries by. A "-" in front of the field name indicates a reverse sort order. Some fields that can be sorted by: created: Article creation time title: Article title alphabetically score: Article total score read: Whether the article is marked read or not title-format= Cortex -- Reddit/{title}: {total} articles, {new} new Format used in the application title bar. Available variables: {title}: Title of the current subreddit or "Frontpage". {total}: Total amount of articles in the listing. {new}: Amount of unread articles in the listing. entry-format-minimal= {title} %> {subreddit:<13} | {num_comments:4} entry-format-full= {title} %n [{score:4}] {read} {nsfw} %> {domain:30} {subreddit:<13} {num_comments:4} comments Formats used for entries in the list in minimal and full mode respectively. Available variables: {title}: Article title. {subreddit}: Article subreddit. {num_comments}: Amount of comments the article has. {score}: Article score {ups}: Article total upvotes {downs}: Article total downvotes {domain}: Article domain {author}: Article submitter/author {read}: "[New]" if the article is new, empty otherwise. {nsfw}: "NSFW" if the article in not safe for work, empty otherwise. You can use %> to indicate that the rest of the line should be aligned to the right of the screen. In the full entry format, you can use one "%n" to indicate the separation between the top and bottom lines in the listing. seen-size=500 Amount of articles to save seen/read status for. browser-command= Command to invoke the webbrowser. The {0} will be replaced by the url to open. If left empty, cortex will try to autodetect the default browser for the system. update-interval=10 Amount of minutes between automatic updates/refreshes. Color Configuration: You can also change the colors used in the configuration, the colors available are: black,red,green,yellow,blue,magenta,cyan,white and their respective bright- versions. Colors are specified in (foreground, background) pairs, the available items to set the colors for are: title=brightyellow,blue The titlebar on top of the interface. normal=white,black Normal text. entry=white,black The main part of an entry. entry-data=yellow,black The right/data part of an entry. entry-selected=brightyellow,magenta The main part of a selected entry. entry-data-selected=brightyellow,magenta The right/data part of a selected entry. entry-bottom=green,black The main part of the bottom line of an entry in full mode. entry-bottom-selected=brightyellow,magenta The main part of the bottom line of a selected entry in full mode. entry-bottom-data=yellow,black The right/data part of the bottom line of an entry in full mode. entry-bottom-data-selected=brightyellow,magenta The right/data part of the bottom line of a selected entry in full mode. messages=brightgreen,blue The unread messages count in the top right of the application.