One Way to Curb Design Blog Overload

A few weeks ago I did a post about hitting the reset button on your personal style by cutting back your amount of design intake.  How many pretty rooms and inspirational sets of photographs can one person consume in a week before we can no longer form opinions about what we actually like?

One of my suggestions was to cut back significantly on the number of blogs you read regularly.

If you took my advice, maybe you’ve noticed that your virtual reading life has been a bit less cluttered lately.

So I wanted to share with you some advice on how to carefully add stuff to your design palate — it’s something I’ve been doing for the past few weeks and it really works.

I used to have a “Design” category, a “Vintage” category, an “Organizing” category — you get the picture.  Now I just have these two categories where it comes to interiors blogs.  Stuff I actually read, and stuff I just discovered but haven’t committed to yet.

Now when I come across a new blog I file it in the “trying it out” category.  If after a few days or weeks I decide I like it enough to keep it in my daily rotation, I change folders.

Simple as that.

Sure — it’s a little pretentious sounding, I realize.  But it has revolutionized my life.  In fact, I want to make these two folders for other things in my life.  Clothes, people, foods, routes to work… what have you.

What about you?  Do you have any advice on organizing your reading — virtual or otherwise?