Comments on: Get in a rhythm http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/03/get-in-a-rhythm/ design. business. mac love. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:51:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Mike Harris http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/03/get-in-a-rhythm/#comment-435 Mike Harris Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:13:26 +0000 http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/03/get-in-a-rhythm/#comment-435 Hi to you too. :) Hi to you too. :)

]]> By: Stridey http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/03/get-in-a-rhythm/#comment-408 Stridey Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:31:27 +0000 http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/03/get-in-a-rhythm/#comment-408 "20-article per day feeds I subscribe to and skim through without hardly reading" *cough* slashdot! *cough* What I do for feed management is employ a system kind of like the one described <a href="http://www.43folders.com/2005/10/14/too-many-rss-feeds-put-em-on-probation/" rel="nofollow">here</a> (does html work in comments? we will find out). I have a "Halfway House" folder, a "Probation" folder, and a "Sequester" folder. New feeds always start in "Probation", and then get promoted or demoted depending on how much I'm enjoying them. Likewise, if a feed starts annoying me regularly, I can drop it in the halfway house so that I know I need to "keep an eye" on it. “20-article per day feeds I subscribe to and skim through without hardly reading”

*cough* slashdot! *cough*

What I do for feed management is employ a system kind of like the one described here (does html work in comments? we will find out). I have a “Halfway House” folder, a “Probation” folder, and a “Sequester” folder. New feeds always start in “Probation”, and then get promoted or demoted depending on how much I’m enjoying them. Likewise, if a feed starts annoying me regularly, I can drop it in the halfway house so that I know I need to “keep an eye” on it.

]]> By: Daniel Jalkut http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/03/get-in-a-rhythm/#comment-387 Daniel Jalkut Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:17:55 +0000 http://www.happyapps.com/blog/2006/03/get-in-a-rhythm/#comment-387 I enjoy the dinosaurs feature to occasionally weed out completely dead subscriptions, but I don't really feel that it's a productivity boost since it doesn't reduce my reading load. You said you went to 329 feeds from 400, but if they were mostly or all dinosaurs, they weren't costing you anything in "New Unreads." It's like having friends who never email you, they just don't add to your inbox count. So what will probably be more interesting in the long run is the new "Sort by Attention" feature, which may ultimately show that the 20-article per day feeds I subscribe to and skim through without hardly reading, really should be unsubscribed :) I enjoy the dinosaurs feature to occasionally weed out completely dead subscriptions, but I don’t really feel that it’s a productivity boost since it doesn’t reduce my reading load. You said you went to 329 feeds from 400, but if they were mostly or all dinosaurs, they weren’t costing you anything in “New Unreads.” It’s like having friends who never email you, they just don’t add to your inbox count.

So what will probably be more interesting in the long run is the new “Sort by Attention” feature, which may ultimately show that the 20-article per day feeds I subscribe to and skim through without hardly reading, really should be unsubscribed :)

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