I, like many, have a problem with RSS feeds.  I have too many of them, and I check up on them far too often.  I recently switched to Google Reader just to make sure I could get my fix when I’m away-from-mac, and have been quite happy with the transition.  Google Reader has a tight little interface, and tearing through a hundred subscriptions hardly takes any time at all.  What does take waste time is following the interesting articles.  In my old feed reader I would push the good ones to a tab in my browser, then happily read and close each tab.  Realizing that I very badly need to curb this feed-following habit, I discovered “the star”.

I tell myself “I’ll just star the ones I want to read, and read them later”.  Mega-hardcore procrastinator that I am, I never get around to reading these starred articles, and save a boatload of time not-doing so.  Thank you Google, for helping me trick my awful do-it-later brain, and keeping me a little more productive.