Unclutterer...your feeds
Monday, June 04 2007
Thanks to Omar, I recently started reading Unclutterer. They have lots [and I mean lots] of great [and I mean great] suggestions for how to organize different aspects of your life. A few personal favorites: the computer file, perfect charging station, fewer clothes can reduce laundry, photographing mementos and the paper clutter begone series (1, 2, 3, 4). All of these articles have prompted me to start thinking about other areas that I can unclutter.
I don't know about you, but I read 20-40 RSS feeds (aka: web sites) a day from my home page [currently set to Netvibes].
Quick aside: I used Live.com for a long time, but prefer the user experience of Netvibes. I should do a comparison, but that's another post.
Anyhooo, I find that I add feeds over time while some of the existing ones will stop posting [Gretchen and Zoe :-(] or go down a path that's just no longer interesting to me. Thus, I end up with feed clutter on my page. Feeds that I just ignore and work around while my page gets bigger and bigger forcing me to scroll around [I hate that...a personal user experience pet peeve]. So just like those grunge-esque flannel shirts I have left over from the 90's, some of my feeds got-to-go. ;-)
While I'm busy uncluttering my feeds [and life] head on over to Unclutterer! Here's a good one to get you started: what causes clutter in your life
~tod
tags: organization, unclutter
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