How I read 50+ articles weekly and what I am reading
Luimar Silva
Head of Growth | Business Development & Expansion Strategist | Thought Leader
In general, there is nothing I believe can be more transformational and powerful than continuous learning - whether it is from videos, conversations, podcasts or in this specific case, websites.?
Although I mostly consume videos today, I am still a huge fan of articles. Especially when I need to get the information as quickly as possible or the place I am at is not ideal for playing a video or listening to a podcast for example.?
However, it got to a point where I was extremely overwhelmed - I believe you may have felt this way before too. There are millions of new articles being published weekly, websites being launched everyday and people constantly bombarding us with content. A lot of fake news, conspiracies, sensational articles and so on.?
To get through this noise, the first step was to define which topics I would like to read, then find the most trusted websites writing about these topics and find a way to include reading them in my routine.
In my head it made no sense to google them everyday and go see what were the latest posts, so I decided to follow those websites on social media and track their updates.?
It didn’t work as I envisioned. Some of my preferred channels didn’t even have established social media accounts back then and those that did, wouldn’t post every new article as this would also overwhelm their followers.?
I went back to google, but this time, I wanted to know how other readers were dealing with this issue. I am not really sure what my keywords for this search were, but that’s when I came across the term “content aggregators.”?
A content aggregator is a site that gathers content from different sources online so that viewers can see articles, newsletters, social media posts or videos from various channels all in one place - there are websites and applications that do that.
After testing multiple apps, now I use Feedly. It has a very simple and clean interface, I can read it both on desktop or via the mobile app on my phone, it is highly customizable and makes sharing easy - no wonder Feedly is the most popular aggregator on the internet.
Although Feedly has different premium subscription plans such as the Pro, Pro+ and Enterprise. I use their Free plan. It allows me to follow up to 100 sources and organise them into 3 feeds - which is simply enough for me.?
Feed organisation
My feeds I organised into three categories: Business, Personal Development and Others.?
In Business: I read about market trends, management tips, leadership, startups, news, strategies, technology and lessons.?
In Personal Development: I have personal blogs, relationships, health & fitness, creativity, writing, education.?
Last but not least, on Others: I keep all the sources that I read daily that do not necessarily belong to any of the two categories above.
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My sources in each category
Those are the website I read on a daily basis:
Business
Personal Development
Others
So every evening, I basically go to the Feedly app and it gives all the updates from my favourite sources on my feed. I can also explore per category or go directly to the sources I am mostly interested in for the day and seamlessly read them.
Feedly also allows me to save articles to read later and explore in general what are the trending news globally.
Setting up your Feedly account
Click here to create a Free Feedly account and download the app.
Feedly worked for me. It doesn’t mean it will also work for you. The most important is to have a tool that curates and brings all your favourite content into one single location.
Feedly alternatives
What are your favourite blogs and websites? Share with me in the comments section.?