I had a bit of a revelation today while I was skimming over my morning stream of rss articles in Google Reader:
Why don’t I use their star/tag capability to be my del.icio.us replacement?
My typical Google Reader workflow is:
- Navigate to the folder I want to browse (<shift>+n)
- Open said folder (<shift>+o)
- Navigate to the first unread story (n)
- Process the story by doing one of the following:
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- “Skim” it by pressing <enter> and reading the contents of the site’s rss feed
- Mark it read based solely on it’s title (m)
- Open it in a new tab to read the full story (v)
If I then decide that I want to del.icio.us the article, I go about doing it from the open tab.
With Google’s “star” and “tag” ability, I thought I’d be done w/ del.icio.us alltogether, but there’s ONE major piece missing:
the ability to EASILY view my tagged stories.
wtf?