NICO | GALOPPO || journal

Do you see that (1052) next to Cooking on the picture above? That’s how many unread posts I have in my cooking-related RSS feeds. Yeah, go figure! I probably have too many of those feeds in my list, as you can see if you click on the image. Still, it just means that my current work schedule (and some occasional but necessary relaxingofcourse…) is keeping me from reading the stuff that really interest me. Usually, I’m pretty good at keeping that number close to zero, but lately I’ve only been able to do that with my other (non-cooking related) feeds.

I use the bloglines web based reader to read my feeds. I absolutely love the service and the simplicity of this reader. Unfortunately, once I get in a state of behindness (for lack of a better word) such as you can see on the left, there is really no clean way to catch up. Once you click a feed, you are presented with all the unread messages and they are all immediately flagged read at that point. You can mark them all as unread again, or even individually, but what I’d really like is that I can mark them read individually.

The problem with this approach is ofcourse that I wouldn’t want this to be the default behavior, because having to flag messages as read manually would severely slow down my normal daily reading. I’d like to ask the bloglines team for a better way to handle this, but I have no clean solutions to propose. Any ideas, anyone?

In the meantime, I hope I’ll find the time to catch up, but the way my schedule is looking now, it looks like I’m going to have to press the ol’ “Mark all as read” button soon. That thought just makes me shiver…