Tip: Organize Your Feeds by Task

13 Sep 2006

Last weekend, I realized that the way I had been using feeds (RSS) had become unworkable. When I first got into feeds a few years ago, I thought the best way to organize them was by topic. Since I have very wide-ranging interests, I ended up with a sprawling collection comprised of more than 25 topic-based folders (science, media, environment, etc.) — some of which contained 30 or more feeds. The result? I rarely checked my feeds. What was meant to save me time ended up creating drastic information overload. The nasty side effect of this was that I wasn't keeping up with online conversations as well as I like. To me, online conversations are very important. They're the lifeblood of my networking, R&D, and marketing. They're also important to my personal life. So I took the drastic step of reorganizing my feeds by task, switching to a new feed…

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