I finally jumped on the RSS bandwagon and tried out a few RSS readers last night, finally choosing
Omea Pro from
JetBrains. I went through the gamut of standard Windows RSS aggregators and couldn't find one that really fit my needs. Omea has come closest and gives me a couple bonus features, like integrating with all facets of Oulook and file searching a la Google Desktop Search. The interface gives me a single view of all of my feeds, all of my email, my Outlook taks, indexed files, and a variety of other things.
Yes, I know
NewsGator has their Outlook plugin dealie, but in my opinion, it sucked, the biggest peeve being that it shared my folder list with Outlook. I already have several trillion sub-folders in Outlook, and adding a bunch more for feeds was unsavory and required too much scrolling.
So, I now have all of my usual daily reads setup as feeds in Omea, notifications when new articles get posted, Outlook integrated so I can view my email right along with my feed goodness....but do I like it? I don't know yet. I feel overwhelmed with information now Before I'd hit a website, scroll until I found something interesting, and read. Now, I really have to see each and every article posted on each feed (without setting up filters or searches, I guess).
It just seems there's now far more information than I ever realized was there. Is that good or bad? Hmmm....