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Boost Your Productivity: Empty Your Feed Reader
01. Dec, 2009 
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Do you really read every single one of your feeds? Do you read every post? Do you even read half?
I don’t. I didn’t. I never have.
Sometimes I didn’t read any of them. I use Google Reader. Sometimes there would be hundreds of posts waiting to be read and I’d click Mark All As Read.
Why?
I didn’t have time. I didn’t feel like wading through all the mediocre feeds that I had subscribed too. Not to say that everything I was subscribed to was bad or just decent. Some of it was amazing. But I unsubscribed to all of it.
I didn’t keep anything. Didn’t even look at what I was unsubscribing too. Fortunately Google Reader has an Unsubscribe from all button. It makes the task much easier.
And I can’t back out. They’re gone.
But! There is always a but. I know I will find the good ones again. The best ones I know off the top of my head. I constantly think of their best posts and they have affected my life in a positive way. Those ones are easy to find again.
The ones I read for something to do? I won’t find those again because I don’t remember them.
This time I won’t be making any folders to hide the huge lists. That little number that says I have 500 posts to read stresses me out. If it doesn’t fit in the one list, something has to go.
I’ve compiled a short list of blogs that I will definitely keep reading on a regular basis. The sites I visit randomly through Twitter and Facebook is much larger but these are my favorites.
These blogs offer consistently inspiring and helpful information. A lot of the time I don’t read them for instructions but for the inspiration to keep working towards the fantastic goal of being a digital nomad, location independent and living a remarkable life.
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Thanks John. I feel the same way with my feed reader and inbox. I've always used my inbox like a todo list but that's about the worst way to handle a todo list. Things get lost, forgotten, archived accidentally.
It's tough to balance how much you take in. I love reading everything I can get my hands on but it often becomes overwhelming. If I can't get to my feeds for a week. I'm stuck with hundreds of unreads. Most of the time the Mark All As Read button is the only way to go.
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