A daily reading limit, for when enough is enough

Spoonfed is supposed to be calm. No unread counts, no pressure to clear a queue. But I noticed that without any natural stopping point, it was easy to keep pressing Next for longer than intended. One article turns into ten turns into forty minutes you didn't plan to spend.

The daily reading limit is a simple fix for that. Set it to whatever feels right, ten articles, twenty, fifty, and once you've hit it, Spoonfed stops serving new ones for the day. The app shows a done screen and that's it. Come back tomorrow.

Why opt-in?

I didn't make this the default because different people use Spoonfed differently. Some people read in focused short sessions and naturally stop on their own. Some have the kind of mornings where they want to read as much as they like. The limit is there for people who want a hard stop, not everyone.

Setting it to zero disables it entirely, no cap, read as much as you want. The default is zero.

How it interacts with the queue

The limit is about articles read, not time spent. If you read quickly, you'll hit it faster. If you spend twenty minutes on a long piece, you've still only used one slot.

Articles in your Library, bookmarks and quotes, don't count toward the limit. Neither does browsing your archive. The limit is specifically for advancing through new articles in the reading queue.

It resets at midnight in your local timezone, so you start fresh each day.