Read All My Blog Subscriptions in One Place

There was a season when I was too busy blogging to read blogs, but and then that started feeling weird and wrong, so I started reading them again. (I learned my trick: I need to write showtime, producing earlier I consume.) Then I started reading blogs again, after I've written my day's personal quota, and reading them reminds me continually why I love this blogging thing in the offset place. I have a advisedly-curated lineup of favorites, and add more as I find them unmissable.

By far, the easiest way to keep upward with blogs is to subscribe to them—information technology's complimentary, you lot don't have to constantly bank check to see if there'southward something new, and if you want to click over and read on the actual site, you can—the link comes to yous, in whatever inbox you use to receive the blog's feed. ("Feed" is fancy web talk for often updated content, if y'all were ever too agape to ask.)

And similar many of you lot, I used Google Reader for years, and was shocked to hear its ultimate demise past July 2013. So I started exploring, found my new favorite way to subscribe, and now I can't imagine e'er going dorsum to Reader, fifty-fifty if information technology were sticking around.

Then consider this your primer for how to subscribe to blogs—whether you've never subscribed to a blog earlier, or whether y'all subscribe to hundreds and are looking for a new place to do it.

There are essentially two ways to subscribe to a weblog—via a feed reader (more on this in just a sec), and via email. If y'all don't want to manage a 2nd inbox, subscribing via email is the way to go. That way, your favorite blogs come to yous in your email inbox, which you cheque regularly, anyway.

(For this blog, you tin enter your email accost in the left-hand sidebar, or beneath, at the end of each postal service.)

Depending on your email client, you tin can too create filters and tags to transport all your subscriptions to a file and featherbed your inbox, thereby creating a lineup of feeds in ane place, much like your own personal feed reader. Information technology's a great selection.

The other option is to use a secondary feed-reading client, such as Google Reader—except that Reader is going the way of the dinosaurs. And then if you'd similar to know where yous migrate your blog feeds, might I suggest what I now employ?

Feedly

I feel like i need to beginning with this disclaimer: I'm in no manner associated with Feedly. I'k just a user who loves their service.

When you head to Feedly, you'll offset meet this screen:

If you already use Google Reader, click on "Connect to Google Reader." Voila—your feeds should have seamlessly migrated. Hooray!

If you're just now subscribing to feeds, create an account. So, start subscribing. On the correct side, you'll see a magnifying drinking glass icon. Click on that, then add a blog:

And so click on the plus sign next to the blog's feed, and it'll inquire you what to name the feed and where to put it (more on folders in a sec).

There you go—you just subscribed to a blog!

Now, when yous head to Feedly, you'll see a personalized screen, like this:

And if you scroll downward a bit, you'll see this:

It's all your feeds, shown by nigh current. Just—y'all can organize your feeds by topic, helping you read according to your mood and what you're after:

You can read all your weblog subscriptions at one fourth dimension by clicking on your binder's proper noun, such as my "Paleo" binder above.

Or, you can toggle each folder, found in the left sidebar, and you lot'll encounter all your subscriptions listed individually. And so you tin can read just one web log at a fourth dimension:

I love Feedly's clean, simple interface. I don't miss Google Reader one flake.

The mobile app

Feedly'south also got a bully app, making information technology easy to read blogs while I'thousand waiting in the carpool line.

You can read your weblog subscriptions in guild of publication, or besides by your folders.

There are other feed readers, too. Laura Tremaine recently wrote nigh her switch to BlogLovin', though her reasons for using that service are my reasons for using Feedly (I didn't experience the "Ikea-ness" of Feedly that she describes). There are others out in that location, too.

And so, your takeaway?

1. If y'all like keeping up with blogs, subscribe to them—it's an easy way to keep up with latest posts, and it'south free.

2. Subscribe to blogs via email if you don't want a separate inbox. That way, they'll come to you wherever you check your e-mail.

iii. Subscribe to blogs via reader if you'd like a clean interface you tin can organize co-ordinate to your needs. I use Feedly, others employ BlogLovin', and at that place are more out at that place.

4. If you haven't yet subscribed to Simple Mom, why not give it a whirl? No pressure level, of course, simply we publish new posts Monday-Saturday, and we do our all-time to go on them curt and useful. Head here to subscribe via email (or simply use the spot at the lesser of this post), and hither via reader. And it'due south always costless.

Your turn—how practise you read your favorite blogs?

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