Google Reader/Gmail Lifehack

File this under the category “Why Didn’t I Think of That?!” Lifehacker has a great post about setting up a email archive of your Google Reader items. With so much great content out there, I find myself tagging longer posts to read later, then not getting around to it as new posts show up every few minutes. With email, though, I don’t bother with my inbox until I have time to really read, so having posts delivered via email may mean they get attention they deserve. To set this up for yourself, you’ll need your feeds in Google Reader, which is one of the best online readers now that they have added search (duh!). As you may know, you can set up RSS feeds for your Google Reader items, either by using the feed for your Shared Items, your Starred Items, or even by tag. Once you have a feed going, go over to Feedburner and burn another feed of the Google Reader feed. Using Feedburner’s option for RSS subscriptions via email, you can subscribe to the feed and get an email with all your favorite links. To go one step further, Gmail users can even use Gmail’s filtering option to have the emails automatically tagged upon arrival and archived to the tag of their choice.

Speaking of email subscriptions, you can subscribe via email to this site, too. That’s what the box to the left is for!