From Google Reader automatically into Gmail
Gmail works great as a personal nerve center.
An efficient way to get data into the system, apart from typing it or using the Send To button or GmailThis bookmarklet, is a combination of Google Reader and FeedBurner.
Whenever I come across something in Google Reader that I might want to use as reference material later on, I don’t star it (S) but Share It (SHIFT + S).
I have a FeedBurner feed setup for the feed of those Shared Items and have configured that feed to have an email version available as well.
Subscribe to that email version and voila, once a day the full texts of my shared items arrives in my Gmail, gets labeled DB (database) and removed from view.
October 18th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
What I do is similar. I also share what I like, but the shared feed goes to my blog, where is posted for other to see/read/enjoy. What I like to keep, privately, I use the email feature of Google Reader and send it to my self, to my special Gmail account “username+reader@gmail.com”, where gets automatically labeled and archived.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Once set up, how does one subscribe to the email version?
October 18th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Don, in the Publicize tab click on Email Subscriptions. There will be a link on the page named “Preview Subscription Link…”. You can click this and subscribe right there.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Thanks Ruud, you made my day.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:49 am
I do a similar thing with RSSFWD (www.rssfwd.com). I use rssfwdto forward my del.icio.us feed to my Gmail as well. I used to use Yahoo Alerts until a couple of weeks ago, but then it inexplicably stopped working (and a quick web search suggested I wasn’t the only person who was finding that Yahoo Alerts email alerts were no longer working), so I discovered rssfwd and went from there.
One nice thing about rssfwd is that you can choose whether to have individual emails or a digest, though I don’t suppose it’s unique in that respect.
October 19th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Instead of e-mailing it to GMail, I e-mail it to Google Docs so that I can edit, share and link to the items easier.
October 19th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
I do something similar using RSSfwd. I have my shared Greader feed sent as a daily email. I also created a “to read” page in Google Notebook and marked it as “shared”. I forward that feed to my Gmail via RSSfwd also. Whenever I come across something I want to read, but don’t have time to at the moment, all I have to do is right click and “add to notebook” and I’m done. :)
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm
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October 25th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Thanks for the info. I’ve been wanting to accomplish this setup for some time, but your description just finished the process for me. Now, if I can get GMail to read the tags in items from del.icio.us rather than its system, I’d be pleased.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
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March 16th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Cool feature! I have it all setup I was wondering what plugin you use to display your shared items on your blog? I’ve tried two of them but they both append the main website to the end like this: http://www.ruudhein.com/from-google-reader-to-gmail-2007-10-17#commentshttp://www.ruudhein.com/
Is it my feeds problem or is it the plugin? I have used the plugin for other feeds and it works fine.