Continuing the series from my initial Getting Things Blogged entry, we now know how to Collect for your blog using your RSS Reader, but now we need to figure out how to process the entries, GTD style. Got your RSS Reader handy? Good. Let’s get to it: We can process all your feeds in three easy steps.

1. Flag everything that sounds interesting to you.

Go through your RSS reader and flag everything that sounds good to you, regardless of whether it appears to fit in your niche or not. The idea behind this is that even if something isn’t your niche, it might still have information that could be useful in a blog entry. Give it a star, flag it, use whatever your RSS Reader has to signify that an article is interesting to you. Again, don’t look any further then the title and the first 2-3 sentences. We’ll go further in the second phase.

2. Discard everything that doesn’t concern your niche

Any entries that you determine don’t fit in your niche or do not have any information that can contribute to your niche gets dismissed here. Read the entire first paragraph of the blog entry. If you still feel like you can use the blog entry, then the blog remains flagged. Else, to the trash.

3. Go through the remaining articles and take what you want

By now, you should have about 1/3rd to one half of the articles you started with, so this should be short work. Read each blog entry until you are no longer interested in the entry, then make your final decision on whether you can use the blog entry or not. If you make it through the entire entry, odds are you’re going to find it useful. Other then that, it’s your decision.

Next time, we’ll discuss in detail how to organize your new articles by context, in the GTD format.

Questions for you:

Do you feel this variant of GTD is too clunky? Too Specific? What are your opinions of this GTD Blogging system? What improvements would you suggest, and where does this system excel? Leave your answers in the comments!

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