My folder techniques for Google Feed Reading.

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When I started out writing about How to bring about some sanity into your google feed reading, I never thought that the process in itself was flawed and required much more thinking. That’s why I then wrote how to grab Google reader by the neck. And I have finally (after spending an hour) managed to put all of my feeds together. Here’s a gist of how it looks. Please do read the previous post to get the ideology behind this system.

Quick tips to follow

1. Start afresh: – Delete all the tags you have. This is the best way. The most cumbersome, but also the most thorough. I deleted every folder out there and started renaming them again.

2. Organise according to priority:- I chose the following, First/Second/Third and Fourth. In decreasing order of importance. The first contains world news and vital stuff to my industry. Second contains all technology and other things, important but not issues I should know instantly. Third contains stuff that’s important to marketing and other news alerts but aren’t REALLY that big a deal if missed for the entire day (think Seth Godin here). Fourth is everything that I should see that day, but again, not a huge thing if I don’t.

3. Have multiple folders assigned to a blog according to content:  Subtraction.com, which is a great blog btw, falls under Design/Webdesign/Writing/Famous Bloggers and Fourth. So I know if i read it one of them, I have read it in all.

4. Keep one leisure folder : Occasionally you need a break. Read some fiction, light hearted stuff. When you want to share a laugh with a friend.

5. Keep incoming searches alone:- I use many searches through twitter integrated as RSS into my blog reader. I have a seperate folder that I have NOT yet mashed into other folders. The reason is these just get to be WAY too overwhelming even for me.

6. What are bundles?: You can use bundles to create a bundle of your news and share it with someone. Like there are things that I would like in a bundle to share with my brother on web design and other stuff,so I make a bundle of web design or coding and then share it in private with him so that only the 2 of us see the links. That was just an example, I don’t have any thing I wouldn’t share with anyone for that matter.

So what does it look like put together for me?

If you want my OPML file, just email me or holler in the comments and I’ll send it to you.

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