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I’ve got a really simple tip that will help you with your RSS feeds.

Here is the problem: none of us have time to read all of our feeds. I’m subscribed to around 60 RSS feeds and I rarely have time to read all of them.

Lisa, our editor at Vitamin, had a great idea: Create a folder of the top 5 - 10 blogs that are very important to you. The ones that are must-reads. Call the folder “* High Priority” (the asterisk makes sure it appears at the top of your feeds).

Every time you read your RSS feeds, read these first. That way, if you don’t have time to read the rest, you simply select everything else, “Mark as Read” and move on with your day.

You’ll feel better, waste less time reading stuff that doesn’t really matter and become more effective.

I’m a huge fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology. I’m also an obsessive reader of Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders (the best blog in the world for productivity obsessed Mac owners).

I’m pretty proud of my GTD setup and I feel that I’m very effective at getting a lot of things done without being stressed out. In light of that, I figured a quick video tutorial of my method would be helpful to Carsonified readers. Here you go!

RSS readers, view the video here.

Thanks to my lovely wife for being the camera woman.

So we’ve finished Amigo … and now the fricken hard work has begun!

I’ve decided to devote 25% of my time (one day a week) fully concentrating on Amigo. That may not sound like much to you, but when you’ve got this many projects …

• Carson Systems
• Future of Web Apps
• DropSend
• Amigo
• Vitamin
• Carson Workshops
• BD4D

… you have to allocate your time carefully.

Today’s To-Do List

Just to give you a peek into my to-do list for a day focused on Amigo, here’s a visual (I use OmniOutliner for my to-do list. I’ll go more into this later on a “Getting Things Done” style post):

Hopefully I’ll be able to crank through these and knock some other things out as well. Time to get on it!