One of the areas where having a smart phone has really upped my productivity is when it comes to whipping through my Google Reader feeds. I subscribe to about 400 different feeds, and typically I’d skim through about 300-400 stories per day on my laptop. Of those, there would only be a small number I’d highlight or print out the article for further reading.
Now, I pretty much exclusively deal with my Google Reader feeds on my smart phone. First, the Google Reader mobile website is awesome. Google finally came out with a Google Reader app for the Android, but it pretty much sucks compared to the mobile website.
I set the mobile site to show 50 headlines at a time and skim through them. When I come across a website or article I’d like to follow up with, I pop up the “Share Link” option and route it to my Instapaper account where I can go back to it when I have the time.
These days, I typically go through 2,500 to 3,000 headlines a day, mostly in those spare moments when I’m waiting for something else to happen or while I’m getting my daily walking in.