August 5, 2008 at 10:21PM Decluttering my feeds
I’ve decided I’m cutting back on the 156 feeds I’m currently subscribed to. While this isn’t quite the heights I was once at, the clutter still feels oppressive. Nothing will escape the wrath of the cull, so I may end up unsubscribing from even friend’s blogs (though I’m considering ways of avoiding that).
The system is this: I’ve consolidated all the feeds into a single Bloglines folder called ‘Clutter’. As feeds are updated in this, they will end up moving into one of three other folders: ‘Daily’ for daily reads, ‘Weekly’ for weekly reads, and ‘Whenever’ for stuff that I’ll read when I’ve a chance, but I’m not too bothered about. This final folder contains the stuff that I’d have little compunction marking all read.
Additionally, there’s a folder called ‘Provisional’. It’s into this folder that anything I subscribe to in the future will go. If there haven’t been any interesting updates within a month of subscription, they’re gone.
This is part of a mission I gave myself today to declutter my life. Next up will be my computer here at work. I’m seriously thinking of killing off Ubuntu and replacing it with something much more minimalist. Ditto for finally reading Getting Things Done and putting it into practice.
So much to do...
1 On August 8, 2008 at 8:54, Darren wrote:
I think I’ll join you in the decluttering exercise. My feeds are many, and often pointless. I seem to spend more time ‘marking all as read’ than actually reading.
Your Daily, Weekly, Whenever thing makes sense, so I’m robbing the idea. Cheers!
And good luck decluttering work.
2 On August 8, 2008 at 23:50, Keith wrote:
If it works, more power to ya!
I’m running into willpower problems, mind: it’s just way too tempting to open up all those other folders and read the contents of them.
Must! Try! Harder!