so i read tim bray’s ideas about how to manage reading a large number of feeds, and those of the commenters, and it got me thinking.

why keep this one-dimensional?

every now and i again i’ll become dissatisfied with my organizational scheme in google reader, and i’ll throw out all my tags/folders/labels/whatever-they’re-called and start over. but i noticed that i kept switching between 2 major organizational schemes:

1. context

2. importance

usually when time is more compressed, i re-arrange based on importance. throw away the fun stuff, read the essentials.

when time is available, i group by “architecture” “gadgets” etc.

today i did both. google reader lets you assign any number of tags/folders/labels/whatever-they’re-called to any feed. so i left them organized by context, but added “recreational” to the ones that i can skip when time is short.

now when i’ve got lots to do (like shovel, and paint. ugh.) i open ‘recreational’ and mark all read. then i take bite-size pieces of the essential stuff when i can.

Posted on March 28th, 2008 by mike
Filed under: web