How do you keep track of all the blogs you follow?
When I started blogging, someone wrote a post about how they kept track of the blogs they followed using a feed reader. (At the time it was Google's Reader, but Google killed that off over a decade ago.)
A feed reader is an app that uses RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to collect all the sites that regularly publish material in one location. So, rather than having to go to each website, you can go to the RSS app and see a list of all the articles published since you last checked.
Some more info: The 3 best free RSS reader apps in 2025. Follow your favorite blogs, sites, and feeds for free.
I use Feedly. On any given day, I open Feedly, and there is a list of all the blogs that have been published since I last checked. I click on a title, and it pulls up the post. I can then click on the title of the post and it'll take me to that website (so I can comment there). Once I've read the post, I close it out, and that post disappears from my reader. Then on to the next.
There are other readers, and they work similarly. To add a blog, I click on "Follow Sources" in the sidebar, and I add the website to the box that pops open. Then I add it to one of my "Feeds".
I have several topics under "Feeds". I find it's easier to group them, so certain sites that I don't always read I can delete in one click. It's way easier to get all the feeds at once and delete those I don't want to read rather than having to check back on each blog daily or weekly to keep up. It just wouldn't happen for me that way.
How do you keep track of the blogs you follow? If you use a feed reader, which one do you use?
Oh man, I really need to do this. I have no system and regularly miss blogs when there is a new post.
ReplyDeleteIt makes blog reading so much easier. You'll wonder how you every got along before.
DeleteI'm in the same boat as tz...I have no system in place and must scroll through the posted blog entries to see what I might have missed.
ReplyDeleteIt's so worth it. The version of Feedly I use is free. Try it out. You'll like it, I'm sure.
DeleteI use a feature here on Blogger
ReplyDeleteBlogger has a working one? I did not know that.
DeleteI have folders on my bookmarks bar on my laptop that I keep all the blogs that I follow in. When I find a blog I like I hit the little star next to the url for their blog and "Bookmark this tab" and add the link to one of the 3 folders I have to all the blogs I follow. Then each day I open each folder, each folder holds 15 links, I have 5 folders. And then I click through each link and make a comment on each blog and when I'm done, I X out of the blog and go on to the next one that has a new post. There might be an easier way to do this but this works for me.
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