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Organizing Feedly by Tags
![feedly tags 1](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/912b5fdc-22b2-471f-9056-9278a51cc0e5/feedly-tags-1.png)
I’m kind of obsessed with organizing my RSS feeds, and I try to do a restructure every two years or so.
This time I’m going hyper-specific with tags.
Tags are basically how Feedly does organization, so it’s a natural fit. But prior to this re-org I was using very large tags like, security, technology, politics.
Those turned out to be too broad.
So what I’m looking to do now is break them out into smaller pieces.
![security subcategories 1](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/30d9bf25-abde-4314-a5cf-8daff88e5ffd/security-subcategories-1.png)
The naming mechanism is basically: subject-subtopic-type, or subject-qualifier which gives me tags like:
politics-outlets
news-high-quality
security-vulnerabilities
influencers-science
politics-news-high-quality
This way I can inforporate the context—and trust level—when I’m reading headlines. And it allows me to use two main techniques to prioritize my reading:
Add the highest quality ones to Favorites
Sort the list from top to bottom by priority
So if I’m in a massive rush I can just check Favorites.
And if I have time I can start from the top and move down.
And if I am only interested in certain topics, or certain sources, I can check just those tags.
Hope this helps give someone ideas on how to organize their stuff.