Since the day I got used to read online, day by day my on line reading places grows exponentially. This includes the website I read regularly and some occasional links. Keeping track of them became a nightmare so I started bookmarking them. It didn't helped much so over the time actually this list too becomes daunting affair to manage.
Enter the RSS. At some point I've heard of this RSS (Really Simple Syndication) thing was the solution for this. But it sounds like a complicated issues that you have to install clients etc. so I never really tried it until recently. There was much noise but I never paid enough attention to figure it out how cool it could be. I just kept on the dark side reading purely on my beloved Firefox with a zillion tabs open simultaneously.
For sometime back I started using Standalone Inc's QuickNews on my Treo which came very handy cos my Treo had very limited bandwidth. This tiny bit of news feed were the best solution it seems for mobile reading. But it never went too far and I gave up. There were few other application for Plam for RSS reading like mRSS and Resco News. Anyway they never impressed me until very recently.
Not until I clicked one of those tabs I find above my GMail account. So enter the Google Reader. Wow! This thing simply kept me hooked. Now I can bring in all my Bookmarks, actually the RSS feed of those bookmarks, arrange them in whatever way I like. Export my feed list as OPML file for safe keeping.
Every morning I simply have to log in to my Gmail account, all those my favourite website stories right there for me to engulf. No more wandering through a zillion Firefox tabs to locate what I just clicked on. The best of it is that all that RSS feed list (OPML File) can be import and read on either one of those Palm clients I've mentioned above.
Bingo! My online reading nightmare was no more there, nugh, done, gone!