Okay, I was wrong. Google Reader is fantastic. My current setup is:
Starting point – I have the Favorites pane on the left side of Internet Explorer with a list of the pages I like to look at. This works very well. The whole key is having it displayed in a window pane. Accessing it from the menu somehow always seemed like too much of a bother. I don’t like that the Favorites on my home and work PCs are not automatically synchronized; they are only the same if I remember to add the same links to both.
My home page is a blank page at home and Windows Live Search at work. I still like the elegance of Windows Live. The Google search at the top of my iGoogle page I don’t use much because I don’t keep that page displayed – I look at it, then close it.
iGoogle – home page. I’m getting used to this page, and getting much more use out of it. Love the Calendar, although it is buggy. Weather – eh, okay, but what I would really love is a radar map. Google docs and spreadsheets – very happy with this – still don’t trust anything too personal on it, but using it to store some documents on things I am thinking about. Google Notebook – it is on my page, but i don’t look at what I have in there. ToDo List – I like it, I like it’s simple, intuitive interface, but it just doesn’t work for me. I have never been able to use a ToDo list. Seems like the items I put up there stay there forever, glaring at me accusingly. What is mostly helpful is the act of writing items down.
Google Reader – This is great. I am becoming very fond of it. DEFINATELY the way to go. I couldn’t live with a PC-bound RSS reader now that I have experienced Google reader.
Windows Live – This is my personal newspaper. I have 3 tabs set up, like different sections of the paper. I still admire its clean and elegant appearance. Alas, I read somewhere that Microsoft has redesigned the Windows Live appearance. From what I saw, it has more white space and more flashiness, which are not qualities I want them to strive for. We’ll see what happens …
Wikipedia – Everything is in here. It is kind of like visiting heaven, I think.
Techmeme – yeah, but I don’t keep up with it.
Google News – I’m still trying to break the habit…
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