The Steve Rubel Lifestream

Feedly is awesome. I've been using it daily since January and haven't looked back. The UI is constantly evolving and is always a joy to use. They seem to keep improving it with every update.

I've been trying out Fever over the past week and while its gorgeous and fun to get a feeling for what everyone is linking to, feedly is still my go-to program.

I'd love to try out google wave....see if it lives up to all the hype.

Evernote is amazing. I had it for a while without really getting it, now I can't live without it. Definitely give that a good look.

Remember the Milk is pretty cool too...just a to-do list with some handy features. Doesn't take long to grasp.

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@Jim I find Feedly a little confusing so far. Turned it off. What's Fever?

Feedly takes a day or two to get used too...but once you figure out where everything is and how to work with it (especially keystrokes) then I think you'll really enjoy it...especially as a tool to help fuel your lifestream change.

For instance - if I'm reading through my feeds and I want to save a post to my Evernote account, its real easy to just hit 'e' then click my evernote address, and then move on to the next item (same with saving to Delicious (d) Tumblr, etc.). 'gg' is a great keystroke as well.

Fever is the hot new RSS feeder from Shaun Inman (feedafever.com). Looks great but only works really well when you put hundreds of feeds into your "Sparks" section (as opposed to Feedly or Google Reader which seem to work better with fewer feeds).

Found a bad privacy glitch with Remember the Milk - Integrating it with Google Calendar, I ended up with other people's events I wasn't invited to -- and people I didn't even know -- emailed to me. I emailed and we both were flummoxed.

@Dorian, thanks. With that, RTM is now DOA with ME.

Fever is a pretty wild RSS reader. Totally out of left field as you need to install it on your own server/host. Once up, however, it gives you a pretty powerful way to process news and see what's important. To boot, it has the first truly usable iPhone RSS reader.

We have a number of Evernote fans at Computerworld. It was an extremely useful service for individuals before the sharing; now I plan to re-structure my notebooks so that items I want to share with others are in separate places from personal ones.

Have to say I'm a little disappointed in the Windows desktop client and like the Web behavior better. Haven't downloaded the Mac client yet.

To give credit where due: I learned about Evernote from our reviews editor http://blogs.computerworld.com/hands_on_evernote_offers_hope_for_packrats

Steve,

I tried adding you as a contact in the wave UI (I'm mmastrac@wavesandbox.com if you add the contact from that contact editor), but I'm not sure if I succeeded.

The product is still pretty alpha-level at this point, but it's definitely the next step in the real-time web evolution.

I am very jealous of those of you in the wave sandbox. I have had an insatiable hunger for Wave info since it was announced. I am very interested to see where it goes. I am worried that it will be one of those great ideas that never jumps out of its niche audience.

I used RTM for a long time. But now i am finding myself in a position where i dont need it. Evernote works just as well for to do lists and such. Plus i can do pretty much everything that RTM offers on my mac or in my gmail account. RTM is one of those things that seems to be on the chopping block as I streamline my tech life.

@Mario how do you use Evernote as a to-do list? Like that idea.

Its pretty simple. I just have a notebook that is Tasks. I add them in as I remember them, I prioritize them and I use the tags to refer them to bigger projects. As I go through my day I check off the bullet lists as i complete things or add more information to tasks as I come across them.

On bigger projects the notes end up looking like a step by step outline as I move forward. After I am done I email myself a copy of the important notes and archive them in Gmail.

Its basically just an automated moleskine at this point. But I find it much easier to use Evernote than the iPhone Notes app or even the RTM iPhone app. I try and do everything by the motto "keep it simple stupid" and Evernote lets me keep basic text files that I can access pretty much anywhere. Nothing too fancy.

Steve!!! I am so hungry for that Google Wave invite - I even wrote them a sonnet!

I'm exploring the other sites you mentioned right now. I'm very interested in your experiments with Evernote. I'll be posting my workflow soon - of course any comments would be appreciated.

Looking forward to the updates!

Ta-da list is a very simple to-do list Web app, from 37signals (the Ruby on Rails inventors). It allows sharing as well, and has RSS output to track changes. http://tadalist.com

The chief drawback is that it's ONLY a to-do list, which means One More Thing to log onto.

Jim, thanks for the explanation about feedly/evernote, that was helpful. Steve, I'd be interested in your thoughts re: using feedly vs friendfeed as your aggregator. I use both and lean towards feedly. However, I'm trying to streamline and decide how to segregate my aggregation, if that makes sense, From my perspective, Feedly lets me pull in a lot of info with lots of ways to find it quickly,which I struggle w/on Friendfeed.

I rate Feedly, Google Wave looks amazing but I'm sure it will be a while before I get hands on! Now that the iPhone has Voice Memos I want to aim to release short podcasts through Posterous but I can't think of an angle that would be natural. Podcasting isn't something I have done before and if I'm honest I sound awful on recordings! :)