Dealing with Feed overload
Apr 5th, 2008 by sharps
One thing that’s been nagging me for a while is the chronically disorganized state of my feeds. I promised myself I’d spend some time rationalizing them before I start my new job. So this morning I did just that while watching Jack at soccer. I’ve been playing with several feed readers over the years (Thunderbird, NNW, Google Reader, Bloglines, etc.) but really spent most time with Thunderbird and Google Reader. Given that Google Reader’s mobile version displays rather nicely on the iPhone – I’m sticking with it; until I change my mind.
Google reader has a lot of features I care little about right now – maybe I’ll take a look in the future. Like most others, Google Reader allows you to organize your feeds into folders. I went for the Tim Bray approach and kept it at two for now; I chose more imaginative names than Tim (“A”, “B”) but only slightly. “The Best” – is for stuff I would endeavor to read daily and “The Rest” for everything else I’ve ever decided to subscribe to. At some point I’ll likely have a few more folders – but two seems a reasonable start. I just saw a nice feature in Google Reader that profiles the feeds you actually read – if it works – that’ll be useful in determining the contents of my two folders. See I told you I’d take a look at the other features in the future.
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