Group Your RSS Feeds By Usage, Not Topic
Over at Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders (who recently sent a schwack of traffic to this old post), I read Wood Tang’s interesting theory on reorganizing your folders in you RSS reader. It makes a lot of sense:
So it dawned on me to group my feeds by the way in which I want to read them, not by topic. If there were some feeds that I didn’t mind missing, and some of which I wanted to read every single word, I should organize them that way, not by their putative subject areas.
He suggests categories like ‘Can’t Miss’, ‘Skip Them’ and so forth. I could combine this with feed filtering from AideRSS and consume more of my feeds more efficiently.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:31 am
I actually do both —
(1) I club feeds according to topics like marketing, technology, personal development, blogging tips.
(2) I then club feeds according into must-read, full-feed and partial-feed and read them in that order.
November 28th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I order mine into Important, Moderate Importance, Spare Time Reading and Photography. It’s worked so far, and better than topic-based organizing which always ends up unsatisfying.
November 28th, 2007 at 11:57 am
I have mine set up by subject, but, like Gaurav Mishra, I enjoy the option of multiple tags and therefore also have some of my feeds directed into quick read folders.
November 28th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Mine are classified into read daily, read weekly, and read anytime.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I find the Bloglines playlist feature very handy for this. I can categorize all of my feeds by subject/topic, then create playlists according to priority. This way I can have the best of both worlds (organize twice - that must mean that I am twice as efficient!)
August 24th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Is this gonna end someday??