Due to a comment to my last posting and to my ongoing effort to document my personal information workflow I added another sheet to Gliffy where I show how I tag my incoming feeds and processed items.

The picture shows my Gliffy diagram (the diagram itself may change in the next few days).



And here is my answer to the comment:

I tag every newsfeed when I add it to Google Reader, so the feed itself has tags and every item coming out of him inherits these tags.

When I then read an item and want to do something with it I add additional todo tags on the single item itself.

An example:

the newsfeed of your blog has the following tags in my Google Reader:

_prio3_weekly
type_blog-entries

the feed of my brothers photos at flickr has:

_prio2_daily
type_pictures
service_flickr

When I now skim the items and I see an interesting posting I just star it if it is a longer posting and read it later. If it is a short posting I read it immediately.

Your mind mapping rules for example caused more than one action (read article and add it to del.icio.us) and a todo (is use the tag !comment for that - "!" means "todo" and the action is following directly behind).

The nice thing is that I have the same tag in Google Reader and in del.icio.us so I can do this tagging all in once in del.icio.us if I want to bookmarks and/or share the address.

Regardless where I post the todo tag, both resulting todo feeds (one from del.icio.us and one from Google Reader itself) are then again subscribed in Google Reader, so my todo list is there automatically. The next optimisation is already in beta since I built a todo gatherer with Yahoo!Pipes:-)