Nov
6
Reading in reader
Filed Under GTD
After being a Newsgator user for a couple of years, I’ve started using Google Reader for feed reading. Even though Newsgator has great client apps for all of the platforms I use each day (OS X, Vista and Windows Mobile), I just got tired of having to pay for this, that and the other thing. I am a cheap bastard.
I’ve been really impressed with the latest release of Reader (especially the keyboard shortcuts for navigation) and it’s nice not having to worry about syncing all of my various feed reader clients as I move from work, to mobile, to home. It does NOT get along with IE7, which is a real bummer since IE7 on my Vista tablet pc is REALLY slick otherwise. The mobile site is good (in that there is one) but is really limited by it’s inability to “Mark all read”, and a pain to navigate with one hand on the Pocket PC phone.
Another result of using GR is that I’m tagging items a lot less to del.icio.us, and a lot more using the built in ’starring’ mechanism. I stumbled around and found rssmix.com, which I’m using to combine my Google Reader starred items and my del.icio.us feed. Things I tag/star will now show up over on the right in the “Recently interesting” box.
If for some bizarre reason you have a burning desire to subscribe to that hybrid feed, the url is: http://www.rssmix.com/u/16743/rss.xml
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