Quick Notes: Three Easy Steps to Manage Your Feeds

Importing feeds to a feed reader seems like a life-saver, at least until you stop visiting it because you can't keep up with hundreds of posts a day. What do you do when your feet get tangled in the lifeline?

I only know about Google Reader but do have a few tips to get the most from your feeds:

1. Create a folder for each subject you want to keep up on. Also make a "Consider Deleting" folder. I have folders for publishing news, readers in my genres and writer blogs/sites. As a bonus, you may discover subjects you should include.

2. Sort your feeds into these folders. If you find a feed that doesn't belong in one of your folders, either create a folder for it or delete it. If you're not sure you want to keep it, put it in your "consider deleting" folder.

3. Go through one folder each time you visit your feed reader to find feeds to delete. Also remove one of the feeds from your "Consider Deleting" folder by either adding it to another folder or deleting it.

Side Note: If you've joined my email blitz, let's give it another week to get your inbox cleared. Next week we'll tackle our email folders.

© 2010 Janalyn Voigt

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