Comments on: How to Effectively Read 12,853 Articles, Forum Topics & Blog Posts a Week

By: Seven Reasons You Check Email So Frequently – And How To Stop

Seven Reasons You Check Email So Frequently – And How To Stop — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:59:36 +0000

[...] alluded to this briefly in my article about how to quickly read articles online. As Dr. Irving Biederman explained to the Wall Street Journal, our brains are wired such that [...]

By: Procrastination Thumbscrews – Know Your Procrastinating and Time Wasting Weaknesses

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:03:55 +0000

[...] Time Online. Facebook, Twitter, email and general RSS reading are to blame here. Solution: I do use RescueTime to shame myself into not wasting as much time [...]

By: Strategies for Dealing With Email Overload – How To Get To And Maintain Inbox Zero

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:07:34 +0000

[...] throughout the day, and sometimes during those specific intervals (such as lunch, or while I am processing RSS feeds and eating breakfast) I happen to be going through email when one comes in. To combat this, I intentionally create lag [...]

By: Are You Too Efficient To Be Effective? — Aliventures

Are You Too Efficient To Be Effective? — Aliventures — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:29:02 +0000

[...] you pride yourself on being as efficient as possible? Can you race through ”12,853 Articles, Forum Topics & Blog Posts” each week? Is your email inbox always empty, and your emails perfectly [...]

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:41:29 +0000

Great tips – I love the practical application. I've only just started getting into reading blogs and gettin info from Twitter am loving all the information but you have hit the proverbial nail on the head with the fact that it can just eat up time. Will see how I go with Google reader. Thanks.

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:41:29 +0000

By: Links About Google

Links About Google — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:37:43 +0000

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By: mtheoryx

mtheoryx — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:46:31 +0000

I'm a fan of NetNewsWire on the Mac, personally. I use 4 different Macs, and it's been a boon to processing large RSS sets quickly.

It syncs with the cloud, so all my machines are always up to date with my subscriptions and the read/unread/flagged status of each item.

Additionally, their iPhone app is extremely sophisticated; much better than any other mobile RSS reader I've ever seen. It syncs with my data, too.

There's also a web interface for NNW; however, being in IT, I rarely don't have a machine with me.

It's also free ;)

By: How To Sleep Better After an Upgrade - Blog Unit Testing

How To Sleep Better After an Upgrade - Blog Unit Testing — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:05:55 +0000

[...] This is a guest post from Sid Savara, who writes about personal development and personal productivity at SidSavara.com. If you’re struggling to get through everything in your RSS reader and inbox, you should definitely click through to learn How to Effectively Read 12,853 Articles, Forum Topics & Blog Posts a Week. [...]

By: Rosanna Costa

Rosanna Costa — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:53:50 +0000

nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now ;-)
keep it up

By: Sid Savara

Sid Savara — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:18:18 +0000

Hi Barbi,

Definitely agree - some days there's only so much time available to get
everything done =). I try to just keep time slicing and multi-tasking
separate so I don't fool myself into thinking I can always do two things at
once.

I tried OMEA reader before, I remember it was excellent and well put
together. I've long been a fan of desktop clients, but Google Reader won me
over a couple years ago - and once they added Google Gears, I was set. I
just turn on Gears before I head on a plane etc and I have tons of offline
reading material.

Thanks for your comment!

By: Danelle Ice (Homemaker Barbi)

Danelle Ice (Homemaker Barbi) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:05:08 +0000

So much great info in this article. I am a “time-slicer” in many areas of my life, and find that it works well for me, even though other people might find it too chaotic. Also love your method with Google reader – I use OMEA reader and it works well for flagging items in different colors for items to read later, comment on, keep for reference, etc.
Barbi

By: Nerdy Productivity: Covey’s Time Management Matrix Illustrated with XKCD Comics — SidSavara.com

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:24:51 +0000

[...] Reading lots of random RSS feeds (no matter how fast you may read them) [...]

By: Why Our New Year’s Resolutions Are Doomed Before We Even Begin - And What We Can Do About It — SidSavara.com

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:24:38 +0000

[...] items unread in Google Reader. I’ve often prided myself on how quickly I read and absorb RSS feeds. It’s time to separate out what’s productive however, and what I’m doing just [...]

By: Sid Savara

Sid Savara — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:28:10 +0000

Hi Ari!
I still follow the same basic routine. About the only thing that has
changed is I continually ruthlessly re-prioritize and unsubscribe from
feeds. I recently unsubscribed from Digg, TechCrunch and Delicious
"popular" bookmarks - the best ones from all those come to me through
StumbleUpon, Hacker News and Twitter anyway =).

I think I now probably spend on average an hour every couple days in Google
Reader, and spend much more time Stumbling and reading links via Twitter -
so much time previously was spent just hitting next and sorting through the
noise. Using StumbleUpon and Twitter, I probably process half as many
items in Google Reader now, but still get most of the same news I would
otherwise.

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:11:33 +0000

How, if at all, over the past four months have you changed your routine?

By: The Problem with The Pareto Principle — SidSavara.com

The Problem with The Pareto Principle — SidSavara.com — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:15:41 +0000

[...] course, some of my day was spent in activities like checking and answering emails and reading RSS feeds, but these sorts of tasks typically take up 20 – 30% of my work day – not 80%. On the whole, based [...]

By: Am I Saving Money - Or Just Wasting My Time? — SidSavara.com

Am I Saving Money - Or Just Wasting My Time? — SidSavara.com — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:10:02 +0000

[...] I count all time spent pumping gas as wasted. Because of this, just like I optimize reading RSS feeds by reading as much at one sitting as possible, I pump gas as infrequently as possible. I like [...]

By: SidSavara

SidSavara — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:51:16 +0000

Grok2 – thank you for visiting, and also thanks for the heads up! I think
you have just given me a new tool to review ;). I do in fact use MS Outlook,
because the syncing with blackberry and everywhere else is so key for GTD
and keeping my contacts synced up.

By: Grok2

Grok2 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:29:56 +0000

For effectively managing email, you should really check out popfile.sf.net -- using bayesian classification, you can tag emails and send less important mail to sub-folders to be looked at later (in bulk) while mail needing immediate attention can be tagged to remain in the inbox. After a little bit of training, this system is really effective. If you use MSOutlook, a free addon http://www.vargonsoft.com/Outclass/ can be intergrated into outlook to do the same. Very effective. (I am not associated with either, but am a happy user (of both)).

By: Can Virtual Assistants Make You More Productive? An Experiment — SidSavara.com

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:04:36 +0000

[...] up a lot of my time. I have automated some of these tasks, such as automatic email filtering, and streamlined other processes such as how I read blogs. I decided to try an experiment with a virtual assistant, to see if I could effectively outsource [...]

By: A Quick Word on Metaworking for My Blog — SidSavara.com

A Quick Word on Metaworking for My Blog — SidSavara.com — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:17:43 +0000

[...] up with similar writers in my space, by reading lots of blogs and interacting with the bloggers – either directly via email or in the comments. I have also [...]

By: More Important than Money - Paying Myself First With My Time — SidSavara.com

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:05:43 +0000

[...] pay myself last is my time; my life. I would wake up and try to be efficient in the morning by reading articles online while eating breakfast and listening to podcasts by experts in their field while driving to work. I would arrive at work [...]

By: Are You Really Working - or Just Using Metawork as an Excuse to Avoid Real Work?

Are You Really Working - or Just Using Metawork as an Excuse to Avoid Real Work? — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:06:07 +0000

[...] – brushing my teeth, keeping my apartment clean, etc. One of the reasons I have a strategy to optimize how fast I read RSS feeds, as well as outsourced my cooking so I had more free time was because I wanted to clear up time to [...]