The first mistake is expecting to fill your feed with content a la social media (reddit, whatever). I treat RSS like I would treat buying a newspaper. I know I

The first mistake is expecting to fill your feed with content a la social media (reddit, whatever). I treat RSS like I would treat buying a newspaper. I know I'm not always going to get the best articles. I only put stuff on there that I would actually look at each morning (not always read, but actually look). Then I skim the headlines for things I want to read, read them, and then put my "newspaper" away. If I find a few articles that are really good, I star them (save) for reading later. Unstar when done. In order for this to work, you need to be very aggressive with what goes in your RSS feed list. I also use RSS to keep track of things that don't post very often- but I'm going to forget to visit their site on a "regular" basis (think; once a month, once every 2 weeks). Social media feeds aren't going to work, because that's always going to be a firehose. Examples of feeds I have in my RSS: - bbc global news (my daily snapshot of world happenings) - local news in English (i'm an expat) - wikipedia featured articles (once a day) - a few blogs of related interests that I don't often visit That's pretty much it. Each morning, I get about 50-75 articles in my feed. I skim and read maybe 10-15 relevant ones and I am done for the day.