We all know the feeling. We wake up, jump on the computer and open Mail, where we see 43 new emails, many needing action to be made. Then we open our favorite RSS reader (in my case NewsFire), and have over 400 unread items waiting for our attention, even when we have sorted through all of these we have over 50 items flagged of interest to check out.
By the time we’ve even checked a few of these, the mailman turns up with three new magazines, and the newspaper. Your almost ready to scream, so many unread things, not enough time in the day. What can you do!?
The answer is pretty straight forward. Unsubscribe!
Really, do you need that Macworld magazine when you could, and are finding out the exact same information by reading your RSS reader daily?
What about your RSS feeds? Go through each and every one and see if they are all still relevant to your interests. If there hasn’t been anything on a feed which has interested you for more than a couple of weeks, chances are there will be nothing in the future, so unsubscribe. If something really greats gets posted you’ll find out about it elsewhere. You dont need to be the first to know everything!
For instance this morning I woke up and had 12 new email messages, 442 unread RSS items, 12 blog comments to moderate, last months D-Photo magazine, and 15 articles still to read that I had bookmarked to del.icio.us the previous day.
Unsubscribe from anything you can. Here’s a quick check list:
- RSS feeds, delete ones which have become off-topic
- Emails, unsubscribe from mailing lists & install a good spam filter.
- Haven’t read a magazine you received more than 3 weeks ago? Unsubscribe, it cant be that important to have left it that long.
Go crazy, unsubscribe from so much stuff that you begin to start to feeling lonely. Your stress will go down because of it.