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Organizing your feeds

Pt. 8 of 10 | 2:03 |

Google Reader and RSS feeds

Wednesday January 28, 2009

Once you start discovering and subscribing to feeds, your Google Reader will rapidly fill up with stories that may be of interest to you. To make Google Reader easier to use, less cluttered and to make sure you're reading the feeds that are important to you, we have to get Reader organized. Fortunately, it's easy to do and all the tools you need are right there, in the Google Reader window.

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Show Notes

- Click on Manage subscriptions at the bottom of the left-hand navigation panel.

- In the Subscriptions tab of the Settings page, you can click to rename individual feeds.

- Clicking on the trashcan icon will unsubscribe you from a feed.

- Using the right-most pull-down menu, you can put your feeds in folders, based on the tags you created in episode 7 of this series.

- In this menu, you can also create new folders and add feeds to them.

- In your Google Reader window, you will see your feeds now organized into the folders you created in the Settings page.

- You can further organize folders and feeds by dragging and dropping them in the order you'd like them to appear in the left-hand navigation pane.

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