Freeing up time from feeds

Many years ago Kev introduced me to the joy of reading blogs, one thing led to another and before you know I was downloading podcasts like "this week in tech" and boagworld and watching online video shows like dltv and more recently crankygeeks. In fact I started to look at enough of these to install various feed readers before ending up with the excellent jet brains omea reader. However recently I have found that I want to reclaim some of the time I have in the evening for doing something more productive so here is some small simple steps I am doing to achieve this: -

1. Weed the rss feeds - Now old feeds that don't update much are not the problem, you really need to get rid of feeds that suck away your time but don't really give you much in return. Ask yourself what you are getting out of it. If you struggle to answer, you need to unsubscribe.

2. Moving from a desktop app reader to an online reader. This means I can keep up with feeds on the many PCs I use and not duplicate any effort or clicks. This also means I can read these at other times than when I am sat at my main PC wanting to do something constructive. E.g. lunch time at work or in the Kitchen at the weekend (I like to sit in the Kitchen with the laptop in the morning before anyone else in the house is up).

Currently I am trying out Google reader... and to be honest I find it just as good as the features I actually used in omea. I especially like when you scroll through a long page of entries it marks them are read one by one without having to click on something or anything like that.