I use NetVibes now. I tried Sage and other readers but they work *too* well and I ended up with information overLoad.

With Netvibes, I only have 5 feeds and ten "headlines" per feed so I'm never overwhelmed but have enough to dig into if I have time.

Balance.

Beestie

NewsCrawler is the only way I RSS. I can create Search-Based 'Smart' folder, drag articles into Favorites folders, flag them so they are saved forever, etc. Most RSS readers don't have a mechanism to save articles, which is lame.

I organize like this:

Favorites Feeds (Digg, Engadget, xkcd, etc, about 7 in total)
Fun and Waste of Time (Deal Sites)
Work Products / Alerts
>Mobile Solutions
>Software Updates
>Security Alerts
>Dell Articles
>Dell Product Launches
>Virtualization Articles
>Security News
Friend's Blogs
Random News / Boredom
Podcasts

Then I have my Saved for Later folders, with each folder being a level of priority (Urgent/This Week/This Month/Anytime, etc...)

sammyc53

all google homepage...
main
tech stuff
hot deals
travel
food
mac
photography

drsphincter

Eco / Pol (Moneyweek, Economist, etc)
Facebook
Lifehacker
Sci / Tech (New Sci, BBC Tech, etc)

I don't really use RSS a *huge* amount so that's pretty much all I need to keep going - essentially it's my substitute for watching news / reading papers in my ridiculously busy schoolboy lifestyle...

antineutrino

News
Columnists
Blogs
Random (Lifehacker is here)

Now if I could figure out how to get Reader not to give me the same news feed 4-5 times a day, I'd be set.

DJRRJr.

I keep track of mine in Apple Mail and just have them all plopped in there waiting for my checking.

sisedi

Ah, my bad.

As far as organization, I keep it simple:

News
Sports
Web 2.0 (mostly blogs. Google, YouTube, etc.)

My most commonly read feeds (Lifehacker, icanhascheezburger, etc.) don't go into a folder.

wheelsoffire

When I'm using Windows, I generally just use Sage, the Firefox extension.

When it comes to Linux, I prefer Liferea. It's nice having a standalone RSS reader but it's too hard to find a decent one, at least in my opinion.

wheelsoffire

I don't actually, It's a problem I'm facing at the moment :-/

superbryant88

Geeky Stuff
Goofy Stuff
Politics
Mac Stuff
Tommy Stuff
Sports (filtered to just the mighty Minnesota Twins)
Weather Alerts (filtered to just my county)
Xmas Tunes

TommySez

The Art of Manliness.. never came across that one.. nice find!

RalphMiz

Magpie RSS, then arrange prettily on my custom start webpage.

Cornflakes

a, b, c, d, e, f

so that if i'm short on time, or just don't want to get lost in the internet, the best stuff percolates to the top.

dabdiputs

I stopped trying. I skim them all anyway, so I didn't see the point. It helps that Google Reader has a setting to only show updated feeds in the sidebar, so you're not constantly looking at your disorganized collection.

dancemonkey

I use GreatNews:

Blogs (e.g. Schneier)
Humor (Dilbert, ICHC)
Knowledge (Dictionary.com entries)
Living (which contains this blog)
Science (IO9, Seed)
Social (Beer Advocate, del.icio.us)
Software (freewaregenius, GotD, NirSoft)
Technology (all the geek feeds: Ars, Boing Boing, Engadget, Gizmodo)

32 total, but you didn't ask for that.

jdw242b

I initially had over a hundred feeds, and because I was ALWAYS so overwhelmed I never read anything. So I'd give it up and then go back to it, and then give it up. Now I just have a select few. Those sites I visit ANYWAY over the web, so now I read ALL my feeds only because I have about 10. I think its better to have quality rathen than quantity. And digg.com provides me with all the obscure tech sites so I don't bother RSSing them.

abhiroop

I use my Google homepage with multiple tabs to organize my feeds. I have
Home {apps for my mail, calendar, movie times, weather...}
News
Multimedia (podcasts and such)
Installation
Science / Technology
Blogs
Going Green

But those tabs are pretty flexible, and I lump, split, delete, and add regularly.

sairen42

I use both Netvibes or Pageflakes.

I have content organized into tabs based upon my interests: News, Politics, Social Bookmarking (Digg, Reddit, etc), Computers, Science, etc.

ubuwalker31

I recently switched to Google Reader, but don't love it. I have several rough groupings (Tech News, Real News, Fun Stuff, Personal, Shakespeare...) and then one big "Everything" category. I skim headlines, opening anything interesting up in a new tab, and then "Mark all as read" when I hit the bottom. Then I check out the stories I'd flagged.

My problem with Google reader is it seems to have a lousy memory for "mark all as read" inside a folder like that. The larger the folder was, the better the odds that most of the stories will come back 5 minutes later. Only now I can't mark all as read, because I don't know if new stories have appeared in the meanwhile. So I've taken to reading a feed at a time and marking those, since it doesn't seem to happen as often if I do that.

Duane

I made my own RSS feed page on my site using Magpie RSS. It has combo bookmarks and feeds, and I can access it anywhere very easily.

It's sort of a ghetto-Netvibes feel without the memory suckage of leaving a JS-heavy Netvibes page open all day long, since out of habit, the page always sits open in a locked tab at home, and is on the "need to kill 5 minutes" shortcut menu at the office. I miss some of the advanced features of services like Netvibes, but I've had this setup for something like six years now, and it's nice and homey to me.

hicks

I use google reader:

* blog-o-blawg (general interest)
* comics (webcomics, comic reviews)
* Craigslist (for those amazing craigslist searches)
* Kitties! (Icanhaz, kittie adoption blogs)
* knitting blogs (self explanatory)
* news sites (only CNN right now)
* people I know (friend's blogs)
* political blogs (pundits and snarkery)
* wedding blogs (self explanatory)

Basically, general interest subscriptions go in blog-o-blawg until there are enough to generate a sub-category. Like, pretty soon I'm going to need a subcategory for "Fashion and celebrity gossip". The sub-categories help me figure out what's A-list and what's B-list.

muddgirl

I use RSSOwl 2.0 beta, on Windows, even though it is still a lot slower than version 1.

I've splitted my 1000+ feeds into three main categories:
- fun/personal;
- news;
- work;

'News' and 'work' do have several subcategories.

ijsbrand

Similar to the A and B list but by how time sensitive I need/want to see it.

Critical
- Microsoft Security Bulletin
(security alerts)

Daily
- Dilbert
- Wired
- BBC
(etc)

Weekly (less important)
- Top Gear
- Economist

Other
- Jonathan Schwartz Blog
(CEO blogs and other every so often stuff)

Not to saw I check any one of them strictly once a day or week, but it prioritizes the feeds.

blackhelos

I wish google reader had a way to add filters like you can in gmail.

MaxDrown

Consumer issues (Consumerist, Red Tape Chronicles)
News (Dailysource)
Environment (Green Tech)
Geekery (Side bar WTF, Freedom to Tinker, Gizmodo, RISKS Digest, Slashdot, The Daily WTF)
My sites (comments on Allappropriatetech.com)
Personal Development (43 Folders, Blueprint for Financial Prosperity, Lifehacker, Steve Pavlina)
Radio (Popular Wireless)

kc2idf

just divide according to type.
Mac
Geeky
Travel
News
Finance
Etc Etc (less imp)

And in all those you can drag and drop items as per your preference. Important stuff goes above and less important below which I can do mark it all read.

One more question, Do anyone know any social sites where everyone can share their google readers share items? I love to join those.

ksavai

Love Google Reader personally. Used to use newsgator.
Tech, Deals, Entertainment. That pretty much encompasses most things for me. Anything that doesn't fit in one of those gets thrown in the root folder.

aarontn

Netvibes widgets.

www.netvibes.com/dfwtexn

CW

I read a huge number of feeds for work (I'm a journalist) so I break things out by general types of stories/content. That way, I can dive into small sections at a time and have some presorting done for me.

Here are the folders:
A-Essential
Associated Press
Blogs -- DC
Blogs -- Muckrakers
Candidates (Google searches)
Elections -- Central News
Elections -- Regional
International
Magazines
Net Magazines
Organizations
Oversight
Papers
Roll Call
White House
Talking Points Memo
Opinion-- Atlantic
Opinion-- Main
Opinion-- Secondary
Opinion-- Conservative
Brijt
Culture
Economics
Energy
Tech-media
Law
Video

Google Reader has been the best system I've found so far.

wrt2003

Sort of begs the question: if something is on your C list, why are you subscribing to it?

OX4

I've been bouncing around on a lot of readers lately trying to get exact features, but my layout stays the same. I group by genre, because I think more genres allows me to have a little more clarity as I skim through the boatload of feeds, helping make sure I don't miss anything:

Biz/Leadership/Productivity
Finance
Fun
Music
News News
Non-Vital Political
Non-Vital Tech
Presentations
Race
Scripting
Software
Vital Media
Vital Political
Vital Tech
Underground Media

Remixer96

[antonis.files.wordpress.com]
I use google reader to organize about 500 feeds. The folders can been seen in the image. The .gr suffix indicates content in my native language(greek) and the X. prefix feeds that I don't really need to read (blacklisted). It just works for me this way.

aNTwNHs

In google reader, I've got
News
Tech
Humor
Video Games

News and tech get a little bloated, but the system has worked for me for about a year now. It doesn't lend itself to getting things done, but RSS isn't about productivity for me.

kross87

This is my first comment!

I use Feedreader and create smartfeeds. A smartfeed is a rule-based feed that pulls items from all of the regular feeds that match a particular rule or rules.

For example, I'm looking at buying a Yamaha R6 sportbike. I subscribed to the Craigslist/Motorcycle feeds for a few cities nearby. Then, I have a smartfeed pull all items from those feeds whose titles contain "yamaha" or "R6" so that I only have to read a single feed rather than several Craigslist feeds. Not only that, it weeds out all of those Harley ads that I don't want to see anyway!

jumbopongo

Comment on How Do You Organize Your RSS Feeds? In Google Reader: > Funny >>> Break.com >>> Cracked: All Posts >>> Crooked Brains >>> Fark.com >>> LOLcats > iStuff >>> iPhone Alley >>> iPhone Atlas >>> iPhone Central >>> iPhone Everything >>> MacOSXHints.com >>> The Unofficial Apple Weblog >>> UsingMAC.com > Science >>> Deep Astronomy >>> New Scientist Tech >>> Popular Science Blog > Entertainment >>> Best Week Ever >>> Digg / Entertainment >>> Rules of Thumb >>> What Would Tyler Duran Do > Tech >>> Boing Boing! >>> Digg / Technology >>> Engadget >>> Gizmodo >>> Lifehacker >>> Slashdot >>> TechCrunch >>> Techmeme >>> Webware.com Manny

MalvaDJ

@Beestie:

Netvibes is the way to go. Period.

the_Sleepwalker

I use an A,B,C system too, but I use more imaginative names. I also add tags to divide up by topic area, so if I need to dive deep into something, all of the feeds are accessible in one click, e.g., AAPL.

Logical Extremes

I organize like this:
Actual Friends Blogs:
Hockey
Localized Blogs
Mac new
Misc stuff (though I may reorder it)
Mp3 blogs
Music News
Serious news (from MSNBC, NYT, etc)
Sports (other than hockey, but a lot of it is focused on the Mets)
General Tech News
Blogs about Blogging (because I want to take my blog to the next step)
Favourite Blogs (the ones I read the most)
and finally
Google Reader friends' feeds.

There are so many sections its hard to keep up.

Anyone want to be google reader friends?

leonwestbrook

>Lifehacker
>Everything Else

:)

Savage

+Email
+Family
+Friends
+Public
+Deals

And to google reader users: the first "email" folder is only useful in Bloglines.com; Google Reader beats bloglines in every aspect but "email box on the fly" hold me tight to later one.

This briliant feature from bloglines.com wins over all other disposal email services for:

1) it creates multiple email boxes on the fly, as many as you wish.
2) never worry about "it will disapear after 10 minutes" stuff...
3) one click(unsubscribe) to drop any one of them.
4) can be used through most big firm's web filters! (well, take your own risk though).

back

Purely arbitrarily hierarchal..

[romanmirror.homeip.net]

Romanmir

I break it into categories (Productivity, Blogging, Tech, etc.) but I also have "Blogs - stale" and "Read Later". Read Later is just that - things that aren't important enough for me to check now so I know I can ignore them and not feel the overwhelming urge to click on them to see what I'm missing.

www.LivSimpl.com

LivSimpl

@Cornflakes: I thought I was the only one. Cool.

hicks

I don't. :(

Ortzinator

I go:

Must Read
RWTP (Read when time permits)
Browse
Photos (I subscribe to photo blogs so I separate them out)
Blog (filled with friends blogs)

I am so much more productive with this method - and I don't fear pressing "mark all as read" on the Browse categories (which has the most feeds). I have around 100 Feeds and do a fairly good job of managing it. If only I had Reader for my Blackberry......

okayplayah

I use Google Reader and I've changed mine up a bit to be more specific in the categories. I know mentally the things I'm really interested in and things that get siphoned to the bottom of the stack until I have a chance to read it.

-community
-design
-faith
-friends & family
-geocaching
-lifehacks
-media
-media ministry
-ministry hacks
-misc <- need to organize these better
-news
-npr
-politics
-techno (technology)

up until last week i was reading through the entire list in expanded view with J & K shortcuts. decided i was wasting too much time and switched to list view. saves me loads of time as I'm only reading things with headlines that catch my eye. i may miss out on some things but if its good enough - chances are someone else is going to write about it soon enough.

jdblundell

- News
- Comics
- Blogs
* Consumerism (for blogs about products)
- Geeky Stuff
* Mac Stuff
*MacNN (yes, this is a folder)
*Apps

I feel I don't subscribe to enough feeds to go into more detail than that. I suppose I should have a media folder for my videos/movie trailers and put comics in there...hmm...

Str4wb3ryf13ld5

When I switched to google reader I set up all of these wonderful folders for everything. As it turns out I never use them, I have about 50 feeds & I skim everything that comes in & never look at the folders. Seems like most of the stuff I subscribe to could fit into multiple categories anyway so I just gave up trying, luckily I'm not anal retentive about these things.

BlogsOfSteel

um, categories, duh!

nka

I use a combination of prioritization and category-based folder-like tags.

The priority is a simple 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. This way when I am short on time I can focus on the feeds I love.

The categories are very straight-forward...
- arts & culture (3QD, etc.)
- comics (dinosaur comics, etc.)
- domestic news (nyt, etc.)
- friends (peeps, etc.)
- high volume (mefi, etc.)
- hypertext (kottke, waxy, etc.)
- images (ffffound, etc.)
- international news (bbc, etc.)
- politics (huffinton, etc.)
- science (seed blogs, etc.)
- sports (deadspin, etc.)
- web & productivity (lifehacker, etc.)

All feeds I subscribe to are both added to a priority tag (1-5) and a category tag. That way if I am ever in the mood to read a bunch of science stuff, I still have that option.

So LH, for instance is in the 1 tag and the web & productivity tag.

panoptican

Like others, I use categories to organize my feeds:
Art
Austin (local news)
Food
Nerdery (tech, etc. Lifehacker is here, too)
Vapid Gossip (can't be serious all the time!)
Theme Blogs (explained below)
Webcomics

I also have quite a few feeds that are uncategorized. These are generally newer feeds--but not always--that are in "trial mode". After they are deemed worthy, I put them in their appropriate folder. Otherwise, if they truly are miscellaneous, they stay uncategorized until I see some sort of pattern emerging, at which point I create a new folder.

For instance, "Theme Blogs" were recently grouped together, and encompass blogs like Stuff White People Like, ICanHasCheeseBurger, Passive-Aggressive Notes, Letters from Working Girls, Stuff Nobody Likes, and White Whine. They are all different subjects, but the blogs themselves are focused on one "theme". I couldn't think of a better title for them, so still taking suggestions :)

poko

iGoogle

ww2db.com

The fewer the better, baby. Seriously--lotsa feeds are overrated.

genuinechris

Netvibes, different tabs for different things.

portezbie

Work 1 (articles relating to work)
Work 2 (articles relating to companies we work with)
Finance
Productivity
Feed for a message board I like
Style
Comics and Fun

zebraphobe

Google Reader for strictly RSS feeds and Bloglines for e-mail subscriptions. I only have about 30 or so RSS feeds organized in folders in G-Reader but I usually read all in one batch reading rather than folder by folder. Most of it is Mac and tech related, lifehacks, with a kitty blog and Scott Meyer's Basic Instructions thrown in for a humor fix. Although, Lifehacker comments can be pretty humorous as well as informative.

rolltimer

I keep breaking stuff into more and more subcategories, but here's what I've got at the moment:

- Blogs
- Entertainment
- Jobs
- Misc
- News
- Research
- Quick Stuff
- Tech
- Weird News

The "quick stuff" one is the newest, mostly one-picture or joke per post stuff that lets me blow off a little steam quickly when I'm bored or frustrated at work. I spun that off of Misc, since the Misc had been about half quick stuff and half longer stuff I actually wanted to dedicate time to reading.

I'm debating breaking Daily Variety's feed out of the entertainment one and letting it free-float, since it usually generates about half the stories in that folder, and about three a day are actually interesting or useful to me.

loudguitars

-Music
-Tech
-Sites/Software
-Science
-TV/Movies
-News
-Other
-Political Blogs
-Local Political Blogs
-Whut?

I do it this way so I can skip non time sensitive topics. Generally I only check the TV, and Whut? categories every other day because they really aren't that important. Whereas I'll check the national political blogs multiple times a day.

madcactus

@Chaoticfluffy: I'm half way between your earlier method and your newer method. I have a "rarely read" tag that I often just wipe clean, even with >500 posts.

muteboy

two letters:

n and v.

what's the point in organizing them when i can whip through 400+ in five minutes using two little keys?

twins8791

Sage!

[www.doublebum.com]

bsts

I started with general categories - lolThings, technology, etc, but about a year ago I went to:

- Read Always (for feeds I'll always want to read if they have an update)
- Read Sometimes (things I usually want to read, but will overlook if I'm in a hurry)
- Read Rarely (things I'm kind of interested in, but meh)
- Catch Up Sometime (things with mega-high traffic, like Ask Metafilter)

Both worked pretty well, but I find the prioritized sorting is a little better.

Chaoticfluffy

I spend too much time clearing out my google reader. I need to create a system, but I only read them through igoogle, so I dont see just how messy it is. :)

cbiggins

I do two methods. The priority based one such as must read, blah, blah, blah with an underscore on the front so they appear at the top of the list. And then tag them with the category they are in, so that when I want to read about certain subjects such as technology or to catch up on blogs they are easier to find.

pjharris

If my Bloglines page gets too long, I delete a few feeds.

Capone

+ Watch video

@digitalpincushion:

I have no idea where that video link came from in the comment. Doesn't go anywhere, so sorry about that.

digitalpincushion

So, after reading all of these and many other rss articles, I have to wonder, am I missing something. I use the reader in Opera, and for me, it cant be beat. As i read the feed I delete them . I keep them if I want to take a second look at a link thier. And, since there is a quick filter box at the top you can do a live category anytime. Also, once your read it the title changes color. So, its fast and easily managed.

zefyr

+ Watch video

I have the usual:
Finance
Science
Technology
etc...

And I skim them, then mark the ones I want to read as Starred for later when I have time.

Also, I always keep a subscription to my blog so I can check for FeedBurner wackiness.

digitalpincushion

Yahoo Pipes ftw.

n8236

I have a few simple folders I use, one of them being "Creativity", another being "Second Life" (stuff related to my work + play regarding it), and yet another titled "Better Life". I like keeping it simple and I moved over recently from Bloglines to Google Reader because I found the latter's UI better (I didn't when it first came out, but it's been awhile).

Torley

I use Netvibes and I have the tabs organized to my own modification to the (LOC) Library of Congress system, so everything is organized by subject classification so I only look at stuff I'm interested in at the moment.

cainmark

I still don't understand what's so great about RSS feeds. I browse about 20 sites a day and I just go directly to the pages. I guess I'd need a live demo to understand what are the advantages of a RSS setup.

PC_Pal68

1. "Read As They Come In" (Mostly Friends and Family, Webcomics and Other High-Quality, Infrequent Updating Feeds)

2. "Read When You Have Time" (Feeds from High-Quality Sources but with Either Frequent Updates or Lengthy Updates, like Daring Fireball, Joel on Software, Waxy.org, etc.)

3. "Skim (Mostly Interesting)" (High Traffic Sites That Has Good Stuff but I'm Not Interested in Everything: Lifehacker is here, so is Ars Technica, BoingBoing, Consumerist, Deadspin, FanHouse, MacDailyNews, etc.)

4. "Skim (Less Interesting)" (High Traffic Sites That Have a Few Things I'm Interested in: Cinematical, CrunchGear, Jalopnik, TechCrunch, TV Squad)

5. "New Feeds" (Recent Additions That I'm Either Evaluating Whether I Want to Read a Blog or Where it Should Be In This List)

RadicalBender

.Tech:
Lifehacker, both Windows and General. I set the "." so this category will be the first one.

Blogs:
Needless to say anything.

Comics:
I'm a huge fan of online comics, like xkcd.com; Explosm.net; and Saturday Morning bla bla...

News:
NYT.

Downloads:
Freebies.

Humor:
Things like Geekologie.

Internet World:
News about "the scene".

Psychology:
I'm studying this, so I need to know what is happening with the bloody science and my class :)

Videogames:
I'm a geek.

KRIPPeR

I use Google Reader, with the following folders:

Friends (blogs of people I know)
Fun (comics, ICHC, etc.)
Geeky (Lifehacker, MAKE, Cool Tools, etc.)
LGBT (Hollywood Farm Girl, AfterEllen, etc.)
Lifestyle-specific (Polyamorous Misanthrope, Ace of Hearts, etc.)
Misc. (Imager.cc)
News (BBC, CNN, MSNBC, etc.)
Politics (Crooks & Liars, etc.)
Science (Cognative Daily, Cosmic Variance, etc.)
Technology (Engadget, Schneier, TechCrunch, Wired, etc.)
Thinkers (kottke, Language Log, Salon, etc.)
Writing (NaNoWriMo blogs)

ladypoetess

@PC_Pal68: I strongly encourage you to play with Yahoo Pipes and Google Reader for a while. You'll never go back. Pay special attention to filters in Pipes and keyboard shortcuts in Google Reader.

cisengineer

i should mention i also have a private netvibes combining local news feeds, email accounts, social network updates, my latest flickr comments, some bookmarks and other tools..in fact lifehacker is on the private page as i read it more often than those linked to in the previous post....i prefer this system as i can access desired information quickly and remotely

Bialosky

Google Reader of course--
Deals
> Deal feeds filtered (by yahoo pipes)
> Craigslist filtered (ditto ^^)
> Book Club listings Paperbackswap, Titletrader
News
> NY Times
> /.
> Progressive feeds misc.
Comics
> Dilbert
> XKCD

cisengineer

I use different readers for different interests. Helps me to concentrate.

BrtW

see for yourself, [www.netvibes.com]

Bialosky

Blog
Magazines
News
Radio

pobox90210

-Comics
-Gaming News
-Misc (random stuff)
-News (not so tech, not so games-ey)
-Tech news
-TV movies

What I found is that if I had things clumped together a bit too much I would have one massive, unmanageable pile.
The way I work my list is looking at each folder individually...and it also means the news will meld together into a Frankenstein feed :P

simmo

at the moment, it goes

Artblogs > any feed that showcases other people's stuff

A/V club > music/podcasts/videothings

Sketchblogs > any feeds that are people posting their own art

Comedy > specific things, like the b3ta frontpage feed, and various comedy video sites/podcasts

geekfeeds> just lifehacker and io9 now used to have more, like gizmodo uk and such.

I did a bit of a purge of RSS feeds and my webcomics not long ago, so i've not added anything new lately

ElRodente

Brief RSS Reader Firefox Extension. It integrates with your Firefox Bookmarks. Just create a folder named "news" and place news RSS feeds in it. Create another folder and put "Updates" and place software update feeds in it. HIGHLY Recommended Extension!!! - url: [addons.mozilla.org]

benbenben3

I use Shrook on my Mac, and it's my favourite RSS reader yet. I recommend trying it out!

I use groups to organize my feeds, with a "Daily" group for all my favourites and additional groups for various interests/work, ie. feminism, environment, news, writing etc.

jodielouie

[dmiessler.com]

I use a similar method as the one described above, called multi-faceted classification :

1. volume : rare, low volume, normal, overwhelming, dead

2. subject : web, environment, software, technology, hardware ...

3. focus : news, work, fun, culture

4. content type : links, images, videos, serches, full text

5. language : french, english

6. synthetic : top feeds, other

I use google reader because it will index when i am offline but I think it has to improve for heavy users.

Myka

I've got a bunch of categories (blogs, news, comics, etc.) but recently I've been much more on the 'river of news' technique. Apart from a small number of feeds which I know I want to read more carefully (Ars Technica, for example), I just fire up "All items" and skim like mad for a while. It does mean that the read-more-carefully stuff builds up, but it also means that nothing else does - I don't end up with 500 unread items under 'aggregators', for example...

vmlinuz

Alphabetically. :)

Yeah, I really don't, I just order them alphabetically. I have some OCD tendencies, and if I start puttering around with organizing them into folders, I'm going to drive myself insane trying to keep as perfectly orderly and efficient as humanly possible. Sometimes, simple is best. (I use Google Reader, by the way.)

Sharpless

I just reorganized the other day actually:

*Daily Headlines (News)
*Funny Pages (Comics)
*My Podcasts
*On the Blogs (Blog posts)

I had to simplify because my previous system (by content category) was too inefficient. I kept reorganizing feeds and folders and was wasting too much time. This way I keep it simple.

Ninjeff

I do mostly like everyone else for categories but I put a letter (numbers could work too) in front of the whole category so that each folder/tag can be moved around easily

A Tech
B General
C Gadget
D People

I use Google Reader and if you don't like the order, all you have to do is create a new tag with a new letter or number and it will show up in the right order.

Simon.Rain

Google Reader:

j j j j j j j j.....

It's a river of news, people (not a river of news-people).

JohnnySLC

I have been using A-list, B-lists and C-lists for quite a while now, and it does the trick wonderfully. The A-list, I always read carefully, and very regularly. The B-list, I 'j' my way through it slightly faster. The C-list, I only read it when I have the time, and/or 'j' my way through it very fast (so fast I even miss topics). If my C list has too many unread messages to cope with in a reasonable amount of time, I tend to mark them all as read. It's better to over-subscribe and miss a few posts, than to not have been subscribed at all.

Remko Tronçon

Google Reader:
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bzx

My Yahoo! is excellent for sorting RSS feeds. You can create a different page within the personalised site for each topic. You can even add tools like calendars and calculators.
My topics are Tools/Tech News/Fun/GTD/Headlines/Tech Tips/Personal Finance

Go to [my.yahoo.com] and check it out.

xenobyte72

>Entertainment
>Games
>Hobbies
>lifestyle
>mac
>news
>people
>tech
>uni

Toby Wilkins

Using Google Reader, i have A LOT of tags (350 and counting) :
- each feed is tagged for basic tagging (eg lifehacker is tagged with [en], ☆☆, web, knowledge management)
- each item I share or star is tagged with more accurate keywords

What I miss in Google Reader :
- tag rename. Since GReader does now accept UTF8 and spaces, i'd like to mass-retag some of my items and feeds.
- tag recognition. As most of items are already tagged by authors (and readers), GReader should suggest some.
- tag sharing. As I do tag my items, why couldn't my shared item keep those tags (like they know keep my comments)

sylvain.comte

I use two readers: Google for personal and Bloglines for work.

In Google, I have five categories: A (must-read), B (nice to read if I have time), Misc (three eBay searches I'm currently tracking), Music (new additions to eMusic), and News.

For work, I just have two categories: Pub (the publishing blogs that relate to my work) and UBB (all the blogs that somehow relate specifically to the press I work for - Unbridled Books - like blogs by our authors).

theorist

Mine is in Google reader laid out as:

.Daily Jobs
.Daiky Read
.Daily Web Galleries
.Weekly Read
.Monthly Read
Blogs - Genmeral
Bookmarks of Other People
Downloads
Personal
Todo-lists
Tutorials

I also use the tags when possible and only have it as new items in view.

Sulcalibur

I use Google homepage and have tabs organized by topic... News, Personal (blogs of friends, or stuff that I read on my own time), Web Dev, Design, SEO, Blogging, Email Marketing, Client Feeds, etc etc.

saffyre9

In Google reader I have a "1-st run" tag for things I defiantly want to read and then break it down by categories.

Automotive
gadget
gis
green
international
news
science
tech
tips
tv

and so on. Of course, they're tags so a feed might be listed in multiple headings until its marked as read and removed.

jeadly

I am Netvibes all the way! I have finally settled on these tabs:

--Start Yer Day (important things like horoscope, I Can Has Cheezburger, oh - and my Todo list)

--GTD/LifeHacks

--My Stuff (track my own blog, twitter, delicious, etc feeds)

--Work Stuff (track the blogs, delicious at my school and track YouTube, MySpace, etc for mentions of the college)

--Work (feeds related to my work)

--Fun (feeds that are great for stress relief or time wasting)

--Weekly Work (work related feeds I don't check as often)

--Design (feeds specfic to this topic)

--Music (ditto)

--TV (ditto)

--Uncluttering (ditto)

--Geek Stuff (ditto)

--Brijit (I like to keep feeds just from this site on one tab)

techy-feely

I have different feeds at work than I do at home. A different del.icio.us account too. I use the firefox extensions sage and del.icio.us and group the sets together by topic.

Ex. At Work
Design/Tech Blogs/News
Green Blogs/News
Local Community/News
My Companies Blogs/News

Ex. At Home
Family/Friends
Green/Local
Organization
Etsy
Craft
Sewing
Cooking

jessih9

must-read-short
must-read-medium
must-read-long
could-read-short
could-read-medium
could-read-long

I've tried a lot of different organizational systems for my feeds but this is one that's really worked out well for me. I've found that when I want to read stuff, it isn't so much about what I'm in the mood for (I enjoy everything in my reader), it's what I have time for at that moment. So I'll read what I can, when I can, organizing to make sure I get through the most essential feeds.

NakariaSan

Google Reader rocks! But Google *must* add the ability to rename folders, it's killing me :(

Here's my tags:
apple
austin
comedy
design
food
friends
gadgets
google-related
home/DIY
lifehacks!
music
tech
typography
video games

samuraispy

I use Sage *excellent reader* and organize thusly:

my site squeezedfresh.com @ the top, then:

Digital
Current
Future
Potentiation
Politics
Culture
Blogging

I have given this a lot of thought find that this organizational style is the best balance betwixt simplicity and effectivness. breaking it down any more is too cluttered looking, its the minumum effective topic folders.

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joeaholmes

- Daily
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Weekend

It took a little bit of time to rebalance everything; but I read about the same number of articles everyday.

JustinThibault

I use FeedDemon. Gave up on G-Reader a long time ago.

This is how I organize things.

-Adam

Adam C

I throw my feeds in folders (Bloglines old school) marked by what the feeds are supposed to be about. And that pretty much works for me. Because I'm probably prioritizing based on subject matter anyway.

The only problem is my politics folder. I'm having to break down that down into what I really want to read, and the rest on what I call tracking. I give it a quick skim to see if there is anything of interest. And some categories I just blow throw, like my shopping, unless I'm looking for something.

Bryan Price

Everything goes into one of the 3:

.critical
.later
.xpendable

And each also resides in an individual category:

tree
tech
food
music
fun
finance
work

The first three make it easy to determine what needs to go when the unread count starts to soar, and also easy to get rid of it. The other categories are useful for topical reading.

pappyd45

Hi

When I started reading RSS I found this post [www.43folders.com]

I organize my folders in a very similar way:
Ongoing (News)
Not-News (I can read when I have time)
Not-Important (not-news, that I relegate)
Can't Miss
On trial (news blogs I'm trying to see if they are any good)

johnnywas

First post was me but it was kinda screwed up. Re-try...

In Google Reader:

- Funny -
>>> Break.com
>>> Cracked: All Posts
>>> Crooked Brains
>>> Fark.com
>>> LOLcats

- iStuff -
>>> iPhone Alley
>>> iPhone Atlas
>>> iPhone Central
>>> iPhone Everything
>>> MacOSXHints.com
>>> The Unofficial Apple Weblog
>>> UsingMAC.com

- Science -
>>> Deep Astronomy
>>> New Scientist Tech
>>> Popular Science Blog

- Entertainment -
>>> Best Week Ever
>>> Digg / Entertainment
>>> Rules of Thumb
>>> What Would Tyler Duran Do

- Tech -
>>> Boing Boing!
>>> Digg / Technology
>>> Engadget
>>> Gizmodo
>>> Lifehacker
>>> Slashdot
>>> TechCrunch
>>> Techmeme
>>> Webware.com

mannyotr

0-Friends
1-News
2-Active
4-Hobby
5-Info
6-Food
8-Misc

steenbok68

@Duane: +1 about gReader.

I would also like to see an 'expire' sort of feature in google reader that would take posts out after x number of days.

CaptainRoin

usually its a chaotic thing. i have about 50 feeds, making it 200-400 messages per day. i am using google reader and in a first run, i just star all the interesting stuff, that comes in, as often as i have time to take a look at the reader. its fun to me, not some kind of pressure. if i get to have a little more time i will sort through the starred stuff, actually reading the most interesting and i will tag the ones i find usefull for later. tags usually are numbers to give a 1-5 priority-rating and letters like B for "blog it!" or A for "art". thats about it

thrhymes

I combine content categories along with some sort of alist/blist type sorting, which is easier now that Google reader allows me to reorder my tags (though I'd kind of rather it ordered them alphabetically for me, and I would continue using _, ., etc at the beginning of tags to sort them into groups).

* _cuteness (Cute Overload, lolcats, etc)
* a few tags relating to friends' blogs and shared items feeds
* news feeds divided based on source (BBC, Google/Yahoo/AP, university department news posts, science news feeds)
* comics
* tags for a few hobbies/interests (crafts, food, gardening, books & writing, etc)
* tips (Lifehacker, Unclutterer, etc)
* tags for socio-political issues of personal interest
* tags for picture feeds (eg, Shorpy and PostSecret), podcasts (mostly from NPR), and video feeds
* a few additional "if I get to them, otherwise I can just mark all as read" feeds
* a few "when I get to them, I can mostly scroll through quickly" tags -- e.g., street fashion blogs and "food porn"

mayara

It depends on what's most important to you :) e.g. my interests are in Google, video tutorials, Lifehacker, Flickr photos and other feeds (when I have enough time for them). I organized all of the feeds in folders (for example: Articles (for blog post and something interesting to read), Google, Tutorials, Photos etc.) and arrange them not alphabetically but by their importance for me :) It really helps :) A couple of months earlier I arranged them in a different way, so I couldn't read what I really want to. But now, everything is ok :)

r1seUp

I feel no need to categorize my feeds. I am simply merciless about whether or not I subscribe to a feed: it better be dang good or it's gone. Then I just view all the items in a chronological stream with Alertbear (a great reader, though unfortunately abandoned).

Robert J. Walker

I also use most of the categories mentioned. However, I've started using alltop.com and netvibes to scan groups of blogs quickly as opposed to reviewing them one-by-one using Google Reader.

martinruiz

Comment on How Do You Organize Your RSS Feeds? Using Bloglines, I have four folders: Funny Mommy Newsy Techy (LifeHacker goes here)

CapriceFlavus

Comment on How Do You Organize Your RSS Feeds? Here are my folders: Friends Individuals (Other people whose blogs I follow) Comics Movies Humour Computers Internet Services (Blogs on Google products, Orkut etc.) Chennai (My native city related blogs) Aggregation (RSSMeme like stuff) Assorted (Anything else which doesn't fit in anywhere else) Social Networks (Facebook feeds, FriendFeed etc.) Fxtension Watch (Temp. folder for watching out for newer versions of my extensions not yet compatible with Fx 3)

TorreyCockatrice

In the beginning, I used Bloglines (and I still use it - both the original version and Beta), but currently, with 400+ subscribed feeds, my main RSS reader is Google Reader. Every feed must belong to one of my 'primary categories':

* Cinema and science fiction
* Citizen and resident (includes news from the local & national government, and such)
* Design and architecture (steampunk goes here)
* The English language
* Images (photoblogs, "pictures of the day", and the like)
* Infographics
* Information pro (Phil Bradley's weblog, latest additions by Intute, and so on)
* Robots (anything A.I. or cyborg outside sci-fi)
* Science news, blogs & magazines
* Science writing, blogging & SEO (iow. advice for writers and webmasters)
* Services (includes blogs by Google, Facebook etc.)
* Therapy (includes Lifehacker, by the way ;-) )

Science is my main interest, and any feed may also belong to a 'secondary category', such as:

- environmental issues
- mind & brain
- primates
- space

tietoukka

I organize mine by location, primarily because it is made up of news sites. For non newspaper they are all bunched in sections like hockey, fantasy sports, web comics etc.

BobbieBam

file sharing (torrent/warez feeds)
blackberry (duped in tech)
apple (duped in tech)
google (duped in tech)
cisco (PR/Product announcements feed, duped in tech)
linux (duped in tech)
tech
gaming
{individual non-tech/news related blogs/feeds go here}
local news
news (NPR, Google news)

I usually check in order from top to bottom (shows you my priorities lol!)

I always tag stuff that doesnt have a dedicated blog/feed (ie: TUAW, RIMarkable, GoogleOS, etc...). The day Google introduces auto-tagging (like GMail's fitlering function) based on keywords is the day I will drive to Cali and buy all of the Google Reader team drinks...

djxspike

Comics
Ebay
Deals
Video Games
Movies
News
Personal (friends blogs and other stuff)
Photos
Spyware and virus (Work related stuff)
Tech Stuff

amrodg

I use google reader with the following folders:
DC
-the local blogs
Entertainment
-whedonesque, Jezebel, a few other entertainment/pop-culture blogs
Evelyn
-I have a lot of blogs, I have them in my reader to make sure the posts go through if I do them remotely (which is dorky, but works)
Famous People
-Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, that kind of thing
Friends
-exactly what it sounds like, the RSS feeds of my friends' non-LJ blogs
Health
-again, what it sounds like
Jobs
-I have two RSS feeds job-searches set up, when postings with keywords come up on craigslist or idealist.org they come to my feed
Slate
-I don't use this as much, because their RSS feed isn't full-text, but it's a handy notification for when columns I read update
Technology
-MakeUseOf, Lifehacker, etc

Freestanding blogs

Evelyn82C

Dailies (top 6 feeds i want to check everyday. Lifehacker is in there.)

African-American bloggers

Photography

Apple

Cultural

This it. I try to keep my feeds streamlined and minimal. I get overwhelmed when I have too many feeds. Some feeds don't even get downloaded everyday. I check out some once a week. And I try to check my regular feeds only like 2-3 times everyday.

Bakari

blogz
covers (cover song blogs)
cuuuute (cuteoverload, etc)
ebay-craigslist
gender (feministing, etc)
lol (cracked, etc)
musical
nerd-stuff (lifehacker, etc)
secrets-etc (postsecret, etc)
seqs (boinkology, etc)
weddings

alyssa

catch up (friends)
fuss & fume (political opinion)
go figure (science)
take in (news)
take in locals (local news)
laugh & cry (funny ha ha, ah-ha, funny-ish)
watches
clippings

americanbohemian

I have...

* Gadjets
* Comics
* Soft
* Techno
* Torrents
* HTC
* PSP
* TechNet

Zalex

1) Front page
2) Everything else

iotan

This is easy. I organize these the same way I organize my bookmarks. There's just a category or two less.

• Blogs (Personal)
• Tech (Lifehacker)
• Entertainment (Photoshop Disasters, Shipment of Fail)

etc

daving

@alyssa: Do you have a google reader shared link? I want to know about more cover song blogs.

leonwestbrook

I organize my feeds by theme/category, then place those categories in order of update frequency from top to bottom.

My closed tree reads thus:

News
Politics
Entertainment
Music
Sports
Tech
Apple
Design
Photography
Misc
Humor

windmillninja