Prioritise Urgent RSS Feeds When Time is Short
Posted by Wendy Boswell at 12:00 AM on November 4, 2007
If you've got too many feeds and not enough time, productivity site GearFire suggests that you prioritise your feeds by level of urgency; i.e., time-sensitive.
Even when you are rushed, there are some feeds whose content may only be applicable to a short time-span. For example, my subscription to Woot! And Giveaway of the Day are both daily deals, and therefore need to be read before other feeds. Recognizing what is urgent and what is not can help you work when you need, without constantly thinking of your feeds.This is a simple task that can save you some reading time; for more information on how to read feeds productively, check out how to get good with Google Reader.
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lyndyn
Posted 12:26 PM 3/11/07
Re: prioritizing by urgency: I've found that it's easiest for me to sub to my most important feeds via iGoogle (three or so top ones in news, productivity, etc., and half a dozen or so in my industry), and the rest through Google Reader. The high-priority stuff takes under five minutes - I keep each tab tight enough that I can read everything without scrolling - and is integrated into my morning e-mail routine, and the lower level stuff is part of my daily wrapup. Spending half an hour or so reading the blogs is a nice thing to look forward to, a way to transition from work headspace to home headspace, and if there's anything there that is urgent or important, I can e-mail it to myself, think about it overnight, and address it first thing in the morning. The discrete barrier keeps that quick check from drifting into a drawn-out browsing session, and the end of the workday is an effective tickle to wrap up my discretionary browsing.
These are some good tips. I have to admit I haven't played around with Google Reader as much as I probably should!
lyndyn
Notorious216
Posted 9:02 PM 4/11/07
Is this done by creating priority folders, or tags? For example a @daily tag for the woot! deals?
Notorious216