Comments on: I’m Sick of Getting 1000+ Unread Articles a Day!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:04:48 +0000

@Daryl – Thanks, Daryl. Sometimes I wish that Google Reader had a function which allows you to MAAR everything except for the currently selected folder or feed.

(Of course, the obvious workaround is to categorize your non-”must read” feeds into a folder of its own so you can MAAR it at will, but somehow that just doesn’t appeal to me as an elegant solution. Maybe I’m just anal.)

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:58:06 +0000

@Daniel – Yeah, 1000+ is really insane, and impossible to keep up with. Now that I’ve removed all of my aggregator feeds, it’s down to a much more manageable few hundred a day.

And your comment about Twitter is a good point. Usually, if the news is important enough and coming from people that are interesting enough for me to follow on Twitter, I will generally see it and read it from Twitter first, even before getting to Google Reader.

The beauty of social media is that there is more than one channel to get the word around.

By: Daryl Tay

Daryl Tay — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:30:06 +0000

I follow #5 and #10 myself. Categorising by priority helps to focus what to read and which can be MAAR-ed. Good tips!

By: Daniel Richard | WE

Daniel Richard | WE — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:42:47 +0000

Woah. 1000+ unreads are surely a huge number. Though one thing I do is to keep my follows on Twitter. Meaning I read those articles that come to Twitter first.

Good to hear your strategy on combating the wealth of great content over on the web. Lol.

Daniel