Okay, I’m now up to 206 “feeds” in my Bloglines reader. Awhile back I had posted about some tips to manage that load of RSS feeds here and here.
The quick of it is that I setup three new categories for blogs: xProbation, xPurgatory, xPurged. The problem I was having though is noticing the onslaught of unread posts in the Purgatory and specifically the Purged categories. See, I guess I have this OCD of going crazy if anything is “unread”. So, I’d go through the Purged category regularly to just see what I might be missing. I guess that’s right up there with my curiousity of going through my Yahoo! Mail spam folder every now and then too.
In the end, I’ve recently come up with this nifty little solution in Bloglines. I just click on the category title instead of opening it and all that bold number in parentheses (187) goes away like magic. I know, I know mind-blowingly simple isn’t it. Yet effectively saves me about half an hour of time from my curiosity.