Real Estate Mobility – Mobile Offices for Real Estate

I like the Google suite of tools, and use the Google Reader for my RSS feeds.  I’ve looked at others, even software and online services which require payment, but haven’t found anything that works better for me.

I have used “Starring” for a while to store away and easily access articles for my writing research.  However, then I must call up the starred items and go through them.  By using “tagging,” you can greatly enhance your ability to locate previous articles.  Using a combination of starring and tagging, you can group your content for efficient retrieval later.

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I use “Starring” and “Tagging” in Google Reader to file away huge amounts of research and material that comes in every day via RSS feeds from my blog subscriptions.  As I write for clients, and topics vary from real estate to technology, I get a lot of posts, and need to be able to read them in detail when I have time.

I also like to mark those that I might want to write about for this blog.  As there are several hundred posts that I’ve scanned the title and excerpt, but haven’t had time to read yet, I need a way to store them for easy location later.  Here’s what I do:

• I tag the interesting posts with the appropriate subject tag to get it into a folder for that topic.  In the case of articles related to technology, I tag them “tech.”
• I star those posts that look like they may be something I’d also like to write about here, or comment on them and link back.

This way, when I have the time to read, I can pull up all the items tagged as “tech” and read those I select.  If they have a star, then I also decide if I do still want to write about them.  If so, the star stays, like a to-do tag, until the post is written.  If not, I remove the star.  Here’s a video on this system: