A lot of what I do really comes down to the tools that I use to collect, manage, and publish data. My Google Reader (GooReader for short) is my information-pipeline to the digital world.

The problem is that to provide adequate “coverage” one has to naturally subscribe to more than a few blogs. It’s a maddening lineup and the vast majority publish 5-10 times a day.

That’s a lot of feeds.

Management of the madness is everything, and to do so my secret weapon is the shortcut keys. I could teach you everything and the process by which I do my data management but if you don’t know the shortcuts you wouldn’t be able to keep up.

What I did was I printed out a copy of this chart and straight-up old school memorized it.

This is the first step to maximizing your GooReader ninja skills. Go young padawan and begin your training.

[Image from Nez]