How To: Read 100+ Feed Items Under 2 Minutes
HowTo, Reader July 26th, 2007 - By Haochi
According to Google Reader’s Trends feature, I subscribed to 188 feeds, and have read more than 8000 items over the last 30 days. That’s a lot, consider that I only spend a mere few hours on the computer everyday. (lol)
Well, how do I manage to read all that stuff? I don’t. Thanks for Google Reader’s “Mark all as read” feature, I can put all the not-so-important feeds in a folder* (say, “mark-as-read”) and when I have over 100 unread feed items, I can just go to the “mark-as-read” folder, click on the “Mark all as read” button, and puff, half gone. :)
Yeah, you don’t really read it, but I think this is way better than hitting the “J” key 100 times. At least for me. :)
On a related note, Google Reader graduated from the Labs yesterday. Still no search function though :(
*also known as tag and label.
July 26th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
The stupidest tip I have ever heard… ^^
From your 199 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 6,198 items*, starred 11 items, and shared 0 items. And I READ all of them.
(*) only! One of the many upsides of the holidays…
July 26th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Why worry about that? Use Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com), I can skip through the 500 or so unread items every morning in a just few minutes, reading each post and determining it’s importance. At least give it a try, I love the service.
July 26th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I meant “skim through,” not “skip” haha
July 26th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
If there were Google Reader Search, I would search in the “mark-as-read” folder for stuffs I might find interesting before marking all as read. I wish Search was there.
By the way, this is not a tip at all. Or did you write this post for plain fun?
July 26th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Not sure if it matters to anyone, but using the “mark all as read” button doesn’t seem to increase your Read items for the last 30 days. It treats those as if they never appeared.
The last 30 days read is a true count of what you have scrolled through our hit “j” though, whether you actually did read it or not.
July 26th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
@Tom
Every single word? Yeah, I LOVE holidays. :)
@Egonitron
I prefer a full feature feed reader, but I should try out Netvibes.
@Justin
I read Brian Clark’s (of CopyBlogger) post “10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer” yesterday. :)
@Jeremy
I have thought about it, but I can’t really confirm it. (I could, but well…)