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Do you find you don’t have enough time to keep up with your favorite blogs?

Is your email Inbox overflowing from being oversubscribed to too many newsletters?

What if you could get more organized, cut down on the time you spend cleaning out your Inbox and take some of those articles you found and share them on your favorite social media channels?

Do you think you could focus more on your business?

We definitely think so!

In fact, that’s why we recommend Feedly to all of the businesses we work with.

In this article, you’ll learn how to use Feedly to save yourself time, consume more content, and stay on-top of what is happening in your industry.

What is Feedly?

Feedly is a news-aggregation tool.

Instead of subscribing to multiple websites, blogs or podcasts and having to go to each place to read or listen to the content, you can bring everything to you!

If a website you read provides content in an RSS format (Real Simple Syndication), you can add it to Feedly.

When you want to read it, all you have to do is open Feedly from the web, desktop or use their mobile app.

When you do this, you’ll be able to see new articles published by your favorite blogs and websites.

If you find something you want to save or share, Feedly provides multiple ways for you to do that.

You can share it on Facebook, add it to Hootsuite, Buffer or even clip and save an article to Evernote to read later.

There are two types of Feedly accounts, a free version and a pro version (which costs less than $7 per month).

Here is a breakdown on what is included.

We use Feedly Pro because it integrates with Evernote and Buffer, two tools that help save us time and make it easy to share content in seconds.

How to Use Feedly

Once you sign-up for a Feedly account, you’ll want to start organizing your content.

Here are some ways on how you can use Feedly to help you start to organize and share your favorite content.

Note: it might take some extra time at the beginning to get everything setup how you want it.

The good news is that once you have Feedly setup, you won’t have to bounce back and forth between your email Inbox and your web browser.

Instead, you can just launch Feedly and read and share your favorite content from anywhere!

Let’s take a look at some tips to help you get the most out of Feedly.

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1. Create Categories in Feedly

To help organize your information, we recommend creating different categories.

For example, we use the following categories:

• Social media blogs
• Marketing resources
• Apple blogs
• News
• Competitors
• New movies on Netflix
• And so on

Instead of going to each individual website, we can go to each category and see what’s new on our favorite sites.

Then if we find something worth sharing, we can quickly share it using our favorite social tools.

Alternatively, you can also create shared collections.

With shared collections, you can create a category of your favorite blogs and then share them with anyone!

For example, I have a curated list of my favorite social media blogs that I read regularly.

By making this list a shared collection, I can add value for readers looking for this type of information by sharing my collections with them.

2. Clean-up Your Inbox

Is your Inbox overflowing with email newsletters and other junk?

Instead of subscribing to every website or blog, consider adding sites to Feedly instead.

Not only will this clean-up your Inbox, you can then prioritize which blogs you definitely want to receive emails from.

Then move everything else to Feedly. No more mess!

3. Create Hashtags From Categories

Using categories in Feedly can help you organize your favorite websites and blogs.

It can also help when sharing your content too!

For example, if you create a category in Feedly called “social media,” when you go to share it in Buffer, you’ll also have a hashtag of #socialmedia added.

Note: You may need to go into Feedly preferences and turn this feature on.