Order in the house - Emails are a mess

I’ve taken a liking for getting information using sites that have RSS. I can have even more information coming to me through RSS than hits my inbox and I still feel less intimidated by it than emails. Today I thought what’s really different? Both are providing me with information that I asked for.

Looking at my inbox I realised what it is. It’s a mess. Emails come in as they are received and so do RSS but the difference is the connectivity. Lessons in an inbox are separated by any number of emails and if you wanted to review a lesson you either have to scroll back or switch folders if you tried to organise. If you haven’t got time right now to read the incoming email or website with more information you drop it. Then forget about it but the message is still in your inbox until you delete or move it. And on seeing it again you think you’d really like to look into that. Of course you can apply the paper shuffle rule to emails and handle each email only once. I’ve moved stuff into special folders with the intent of looking at it in more detail later only to forget about it. I’ve flagged and watched threads but it’s still a mess.

So How can I be getting even more data from 12 informational websites that regularly update and still have more time than reading emails. Order. Each feed has it’s own source folder. If I want to review a past post I just scroll down the list.

Headlines summarise the articles without fear of being eaten by spam stoppers before they hit your inbox. The are informative enough alone to help me decide whether I need or want to know more. Clicking on the headline for many feeds gives me a brief introduction what the feed is about and if I want to read more I can click on read more and the site opens in the browser.

Because I like these features myself and can avoid spamming inboxes with information, whether requested or not. I’ve made my Blog RSS accessible.

I’ve been using FeedReader its free. Turned out easier to use than it looked. To add a fee I just click on the RSS button of the sites that have them and this opens up a browser often with garbled information. I just copy (Crtl C) the site from the search bar and click the add feed in the feeder and past the link. A couple more clicks and I’m getting regular updates from sites.

Now if only there was something this easy for email, It’s time consuming teaching the email browser to do the sorting.