how i use the internet/rss feeds?
I've been toying with the idea of using an RSS feed to organize all the media and blogs I read on the internet for a few months, and am, to say the least, overwhelmed with the multitude of different readers out there. I've looked at so many and haven't regularly followed through with keeping them updated that I have just about given up. I've found an integrated podcast organizer and RSS reader, that seemed enticing, but I don't listen to that many podcasts, pretty much only Poetry Unbound. Some of these RSS feeds require you to pay to use them, and it just seems bogus.
I'll share what I have been doing to organize the media I read on the internet here instead, very briefly, in hopes that maybe someone else feels similarly and prefers to take a simple approach to this.
I pretty much just have bookmark folders where I keep blogs I like to check regularly, recipes I find, scheduling tools for appointments, and other fun things like digital photo manipulation apps. Every now and then, perhaps every few months, if not a year, I go through and purge things that I've carried around in my bookmarks for too long, things that have expired, or that I've lost interest in, so this list in my bookmark folder is really not that long at all. That's it!
I don't even know what else I could share about this, because it's really that simple. This is what I've been doing for ages, since I began using a computer with internet access when I was 10 years old in 2001, the old tower PC and clunky monitor running Windows XP at my dad's house, the even older one running Windows 98 at my mom's house, the PowerPC G4 Mac Mini (first generation) that was my first personal computer, in high school, that I had in my room.
For me, I just don't really have a desire to open up my browser and see every single thing I follow in a perfectly curated feed. That's why I left Instagram. That's why I left Reddit. I like to instead click on a specific page, look at it for a little bit, and then close my computer or move on to another page, maybe follow a trail I find from that page to a new part of the internet? Who knows.
This way seems less overwhelming, a little more intentional, and just more wholesome than trying to compile everything in one place all at once, because who's mind can process that much information all at once, really?