Shankar Ganesh

Many people have subscribed to this blog via Google Reader and I’m just one of Google Reader’s fans. I just wanted to give some tips to you all. Keep reading…

Tag your feeds appropriately
As days pass by, you find your self subscribing to a variety of feeds across the blogosphere. Some interesting, some not that much. Try categorizing the feeds as you wish. Besides tagging feeds like blog tips, technology etc., you could try prioritizing them. For example, you could take a look at the way in which I’ve tagged my feeds.

I’ve three categories: technology-1, 2 and 3. The first section is the most important one to me, the blogs which I find are must reads every day. I read them first and then the rest. This could be of great help when you have very little time to browse through the articles.

Star Items for later reading
Google reader has a very good feature which allows you to star your items. You could use this feature to mark items for later reading or for reference. Sometimes, you may have very little time browsing through the feed and you just have a glance and go off. You may wish to read that item in-depth later, and this is the point where Starring comes in.

Share Items with others
Well, this is not really a tip, but it’s a good thing to do if you use Google Reader. You could use the ‘Share’ button at the end of each RSS item to tell the world what you’re reading. You could then click the ‘Shared Items’ link in the left panel to get your Shared Items URL to which your friends could subscribe to.

That’s just what I was wanting to say about Google Reader. If you have any tips, please share them here.

Well, put up your shared items URL ,if you wish, here so that we shall exchange interesting items.