This is entirely off-topic for this blog, but I just had to share! I have finally figured out how to add labels to individual posts in Google Reader.
Turns out, there’s a link at the bottom of each item for tags — the actual text will be “Add tag” or “Edit tags”. Click on this and you can add a tag to the post — just like adding a label in GMail! I really should have noticed this before, but it took Googling for help before I found it.
This is incredibly useful for me because I use Google Reader for tracking all the blogs I read, whether they are WoW blogs or professional blogs or blogs about blogging or what have you. I star posts that I want to go back to, but previously I had no way to tell why I had starred the post without reading over it again. Did I want to post a link to the item here? Did the post talk about an addon I wanted to try myself? Did it give me a germ of an idea for one of my other blogs? Was it just something I found personally interesting?
Now when I star a post I can also add a tag. (Technically I can add tags without starring the post, but I still find starring the most intuitive way to remind me to look at it again.) My tags become folder-like entities at the bottom of the navigation pane so I can quickly get a list of individual items with each tag.
This should speed up my posting of community links, if nothing else! The other feature I’d really like is the ability to define a filter so that I can see only items with a star *and* a tag. Then I could simply un-star items when I am done with them and not have to remove the tag.
Nice bit of info…I used to star posts also in google reader but have not used this for a while now. Will check this over…thanks Mania.
Definitely good to know, especially because I just started using Google Reader myself. Thanks for the headsup.
Try checking this out: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/10-smart-hacks-for-google-reader.html.
Maybe there’s something in it that you can use! :)
Thanks for the link. After posting all excited about labels yesterday I kept reading and found some other cool tricks I can use with Google Reader to make my life easier — like an auto-updating blogroll and a feed of interesting posts from other blogs that I’d like to share. I’m working on getting those up and running today, although unfortunately I have to spend most of the day today doing real work.
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