Guys, how do you organize your Google Reader feeds? I can't find the best way to do that! My greader is madness, and now I want to do a cleanup but I want to know the best way to organize feeds. HELP!!
I have about ten folders with broad categories and one for fast news which is the one that gets old quickly, the others can wait and I don't mind if they accumulate articles.
- M F
Group everything like you have done. I then have a folder with just the 5 or so feeds I read daily. The search function means you can be quite broad with your categories. Like M F above says really.
- Toby Graham
I don't need to organize my feeds: I subscribe only to must-read full-text feeds, I toggle full screen mode (u), I read quickly by hitting j/k, I star articles that deserve further reading (s), I share (shift+s) or email (e). So far it's a perfect process for me. I don't bookmark & label Friendfeed entries, why should I do so in Reader? (I actually put my feed in broad categories when subscribing, but it's only for stats)
- Jérôme Flipo
I didn't know about full-screen-mode. Thanks for the tip Jérôme.
- Fred Yankowski
I see.. So, the first thing I need to do, is delete most of the feeds that I don't usually read..
- Leandro Ardissone ∞
Granted I moved all my news to a private room here. RSS feeds and news is just old information. My google reader has feeds that are not time sensitive.
- CW™
Three Catagories: Must Read, News, Whenever...Must read is the blogs that I want to keep up with; News is the news feeds (sports teams, espn, etc); Whenever is the blogs that I like to read, but have to keep up with them daily.
- Michael Ramm
My categories are: crafts, friends (actual blogs of RL friends), entertainment, lost (tv show), tech, web
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
via BuddyFeed
Alt+F4, then open Friendfeed. It's what I did.
- Josh Haley
This is a good question. I'm enjoying the feedback. Personally, I have my feeds organized by topic (i.e. Higher Ed, News, Technology, etc.) as well as by priority (Priority 1, 2, and 3). This allows me to easily locate my most important feeds when my account gets out of control. All others are marked as read. Each time I add a new feed, it is given a priority as well as a subject tag.
- Adam
I simply put all the feeds I consider must-reads into a folder and leave the rest as is
- LANjackal
I also have broad categories by subject & one with favourites that I read daily. Most of the time I read my feeds from feedly, wich works together with google reader, but looks more like a news website and not so much like email. this takes the must-read-all-this-stuff pressure a little bit away. since I started using feedly I feel a lot less stressed about unread items in the feed reader.
- Lisa Tiyamiyu
I have one folder called ___DAILY READS that's the stuff I read every day. Everything else is filed away like yours. Works for me. Oh and LOVE FEEDLY!!
- sean808080
I have all my feeds in topical folders. Then I open up Feedly. Try it, you'll never look at GReader the same way again.
- Mike VanLare (slayerboy)
I've organized them by priority. e.g. A-List (must read), B-List (read when enough time), C-List (everything else). Going trough them from A to C.
- Waldemar Schott