Crunching Feeds
I’ve just extra-organised my 269 feeds in Google Reader. I say “extra” and not “reorganised” because I didn’t move anything around, but rather, classified several categories of feeds into larger umbrella labels.
The problem with Google Reader is that it lacks the capability to have nested folders—a feature much requested for on the forums, it seems. Nonetheless, as much as I love Reader, it doesn’t do that yet.
However, like Gmail’s foldering structure, it treats labels not as categories the feeds belong in, but tags that identify each feed.
So I just added an extra label in caps to feeds that are already in similar groups, shrinking 29 categories down into 5 umbrella categories I can just breeze through.
Friends get a category of their own, and don’t get lumped. ‘Cos those feeds are top priority.
Lack of nested folders is a problem in almost all feed-readers, including my beloved FeedDemon. The problem comes from the fact that OPML files don’t allow for nested folders and so to enable users to move from one feed-reader to another, nested folders are taboo.
Interesting how 300 feeds (or thereabouts) seems to be the tipping point for a lot of folks - I’m at 276 feeds now and have been hovering at that number for some time now, adding a few, deleting a few etc. It seems like if you do break 300, the next stop is Scoble-style 600+ feeds :O
That is a great looking feedlist. Care to share some of your favs from each category? Wondering if I missed out anything cool.