Group Your RSS Feeds By Usage, Not Topic

November 28th, 2007

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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.

Tags: 43-folders, aiderss, feeds, life-hack, rss

Comments: 8 Responses so far

Gaurav Mishra
November 28th, 2007
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.

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Todd Sieling
November 28th, 2007
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.

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reddirtroad
November 28th, 2007
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.

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Hannah
November 28th, 2007
5:16 pm

Mine are classified into read daily, read weekly, and read anytime.

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jeff
November 28th, 2007
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!)

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