Our schedules can get so busy, sometimes it's hard to keep up with all the feed items in our RSS reader. Today, I woke up to over 1,000 items unread.
Some folks avoid this problem by not subscribing to any RSS feeds ('scuse me, but ignoring something over and over makes one ignorant, no?)
Here's how I handle an overload of RSS items on my plate:
- First, I practice Skim, Scan, Save (and then Share) to avoid the infosumption overload
- Once my feed items get over 300 unread, I'll do the S-plan above until I reach items more than 24 hours old – and click on Mark All as Read for the others.
So this morning, though the items unread were over 1,000 – no fretting here. I just have a 24-hour period to read through (probably about 200 items)…and remember, I Skim, Scan & Save (and then Share) and get rid of the older ones- so it should take me about 15-20 minutes.
If something is really, really poplular (you know…that thing you don't want to miss?), everybody will be writing/talking about it — you'll catch up.
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