Prioritizing feeds in Google Reader
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Google Reader is great, no question about it. It’s my favourite feed reader, and proves itself useful time after time.
There’s just one thing that bugs me sometimes: when you have 137 subscriptions, as I do at the moment, it can get really hard to know what to read first. I realized how I was getting behind in information because it’s hard to decide what feed tagged as ‘design‘ to read from a list of 29, even knowing not all of them are really important.
So I did something simple: started a new tag, named ‘_must_read_frequently’, and set it as the the initial folder, under Preferences. Then I went about my feed list and tagged six or seven of them.
It’s been a lot easier to prioritize.
I know it’s something very simple, and not innovative at all, but maybe it just might be useful for someone.
* You can name your new tag whatever you want, of course; I just recommend adding the underscore or some other special character before it’s name so that it shows up as the first item in the folder list.