How Do You Read Blogs?

It started slowly. . . when I began reading other people’s blogs. I would sign up to receive them as emails in my inbox. But then I signed up for more. . .  and more. Soon, I had a lot of emails filling my inbox. It took a lot of time to look at them since I had to open the email and click on two links in order to just see some of the blog posts. It was a little overwhelming at times and I started eliminating these emails without even opening them.

What a waste of time!

So I stopped and thought about it. I look at Facebook every day. Every one of these blogs (at least the ones I like) links up their blog posts on their Facebook page. They usually have a photo with them, which makes it easy for me to determine whether it’s something I want to look at (unlike an email, which just has a subject line). So I decided to unsubscribe from all the emails and just follow them on Facebook.

This decision has simplified my life and saved me a lot of time processing emails.

How do you manage your electronic reading? Let me know.

 

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Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

2 Comments

  1. Juli Monroe ( on September 17, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    I use the RSS feeds to send the articles to Feedly. I check Feedly two or three times a day, and everything new is there.

  2. Basic Organization on September 17, 2013 at 3:01 pm

    Juli, I used a service called Swizzle for awhile, but didn’t like it. It was inconsistent with delivery of blog posts and worked one day and not the next. I find my facebook feed is enough for me. I’ll look into Feedly. Thanks.

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