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I am a relatively recent convert to RSS, and sometimes I wonder how I used to live without it. I use it to follow blogs, webcomics, news sites, deadlines… But I still use bookmarks too, even for sites with an RSS feed. Some I don’t even have bookmarked, but I visit regularly enough they’re in my recent history.

I’ve noticed that recently I’m getting stricter with myself about what I add to my feed reader, and I think I’ve discerned why. I have several hundred sites bookmarked, and I’d say a fair proportion of those bookmarks are long out of date. A lot of them I don’t even remember bookmarking. These days, I’m more likely to add a new site to my feed reader rather than my bookmarks, since otherwise I’ll probably forget to check it. However, as the list of feeds gets longer and longer, I find first thing on a Monday there’s simply too many updates to read, and some of the longer posts get lefts for days, if not weeks at a time. As I come across new sites and sources of procrastination – especailly sites that update daily or more often – I’m finding that I neither bookmark them nor add them to the feed reader. If they hold my interest, I check them often enough I don’t need to, and if they don’t then they drop off the face of the browser and I forget they ever existed.

Despite admitting I use multiple methods myself, I’ve been mean and forced you to chose only one option. 😛 What do you use most often? Why that? Does it depend on what you’re following?