Buckets, Context, Folders, Reading List, Potahtoes

“The key insight is that I just had to make up my mind and sort the feeds into two buckets, one for the can’t-afford-to-miss stuff, the other for everything else” – Tim Bray”

As of this writing, I have at least 10 ‘buckets’ or reading lists for feeds: tech news, friends & family, podcasts, economics, feeds I’m test-driving, minnesota design blogs, ruby on rails programming blogs, my twitter feed, etc.

There’s somewhere around 300 feeds all together, but that number doesn’t mean much because I never see them all at once. I just see the whatever subset is in the river of news reading list/bucket I’m interested in at the moment.

Do I read all of them everyday? No. Nor do I feel any pressure to (i.e. aggregate unread count).

When I’m in the mood to see what’s new or important in any one of those buckets, I simply load up the url. If I stop looking, no harm, no foul. It’ll be there and the important stuff will keep bubbling to the top.

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