As I said, everything I have listed here won’t work for everyone. This is how I cope with information overload and when I advised some of my close friends with these tips, they said they found it very useful.

You can subscribe to a lot of feeds.

And as I said in the post:

“Is it possible to go through all of them and still have time to act on what you have learned? If you said ‘yes, it is possible for me’, consider yourself gifted. You won’t find much helpful information in this post. You can contact me and let me know how you do it if you wish. I’d be happy to learn from you.”

It doesn’t work for me (like for many others). But I’m happy you are able to read every time in your feed and still take action on everything.

And glad you liked the SU tip.

Cheers

We subscribe to feeds because we don’t want to miss a thing – news, analysis, trends, brilliant posts, humor pieces. Let them sit there. These are not going anywhere.

I’d deal with them at my own pace in my own time. One post at a time.

Besides my Reader is a great database of info and how-to and other trivia. I only have to hit search and presto – I have something to spice up my post with in terms of links, related reading across the web.

I use Feedly to prettify my Reader by the way. It’s got several attractive layouts that make reading feeds fun again. It’s got sharing functionality, too.

Love your tip about SU. Didn’t think of that before. Thanks!

I agree that setting time aside for reading blogs and checking emails will save you a lot of time. Planning always helps.

There is a saying that goes like this:
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.

So true.

What else do you think will help in avoiding information overload online?

Thanks for the comment.

I have currently about 15 blogs in my RSS reader. It not only gives me less content but also time to act to what I read.

Do you have any strategy to avoid information overload? Would love to hear from you.

Cheers

And yes, the image is really funny!