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E-mail notifiers are great if you're the sort of person who doesn't like to keep a lot of unread messages in your inbox. But unless you only subscribe to a handful of RSS feeds, we're not convinced that an RSS notifier is anywhere near as useful. That's because we've never met anybody who manages to actually keep up with their RSS feeds. And what use is a notifier that constantly reminds you that there are thousands of unread items awaiting you?Well, it turns out, Google Reader Notifier actually can be kind of useful. That's because you can set it to monitor items with a particular label. So if you've got one label for general news, another for technology news, and another for silly pictures of cats, you can just check out the unread cat photos every day. We're big advocates of setting low goals to avoid disappointment.
Unfortunately, there's no way to select multiple labels. If you'd rather have your notifier as a browser plugin, check out the Google Reader Notifier add-on for Firefox.
[via gHacks]
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Subscribe to commentsMarat LevitAug 22nd 2007 6:48PM
Haha I love my Gmail notifier but this is just crazy.
I have over 10 technology blogs that I monitor with Google Reader and just now as I'm looking through and reading up on the latest I have over 100 new posts that have been made over night.
It's just too crazy to keep up with RSS feeds.
It's a nice try, but it isn't gonna work this time Google.
Thank you,
Marat Levit
www.mlevit.wordpress.com
BrentAug 22nd 2007 8:39PM
"what use is a notifier that constantly reminds you that there are thousands of unread items awaiting you?"
I totally agree. For those of us who read way too many feeds, this notifier would be nagging me all day long. Google Reader ALWAYS has new feeds for me to read. I don't need a reminder to be distracted any more than I already am. :)
Brent
EmilyAug 23rd 2007 8:08AM
Marat Levit is right, It's impossible to handle so many notifications..
That's why I use RSS reader for most of the stuff I'm subscribed to and I get notifications for my top 2 RSS from 8hands (which I use for my social needs).
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