Subscribe to the 2W2aB feedI love this post from Zen Habits called, Haiku Productivity: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential. The post offers several ways to focus on the most important tasks and includes ways to ensure you don't waste precious time.
One of the suggestions is to limit yourself to 10 RSS feeds. Interestingly, I just went through and unsubscribed to a bunch of feeds last night because my list had gotten too long. I don't check my aggregator when I travel and often come back to hundreds or thousands of unread posts. I did not get to 10, however, I still have over 100. I think I should shoot for 50. Emphasizing this suggestion could well bite me in the tail - I guess I will just have to see if my subscriber numbers go down!
Check out all the suggestions. In the spirit of focus, try just one!
I don't think it matters how *many* RSS feeds you have as how much the # of feeds and # minutes you spend reading them all positively or negatively impacts your life. I have 423 feeds (no joke) and the hour I spend reading them a day is immensely enjoyable and beneficial. No way would I ever pare down to 10.
Posted by: Marina @ Sufficient Thrust | September 10, 2007 at 12:26 PM
423 feeds? Wow, that's a lot. Sure, I think that it is all relative. For those who find they are not able to focus on what's most important, any one of these ideas - or another one - might be the ticket.
Posted by: Lisa Haneberg | September 10, 2007 at 01:40 PM