We know that AideRSS takes care of filtering and ranking RSS feeds to help you Read What Matters. You’re left with just the relevant information – it’s more interesting to read and saves you time. But there’s still more to defining relevance.

How we define what information is relevant depends mainly on three factors:

1) Does it interest me?

This is pretty straightforward. Usually we won’t read things we’re not interested in, even if we should. This includes TPS reports and BBQ assembly instructions.

2) Do I have time to read it?

See: previous post discussing declaring RSS bankruptcy. Sometimes, even if information is relevant and we want to read it, we just don’t have time. So we need to be able to read relevant information when we do have time – no matter where we happen to be.

3) Do I have a place to read it?

This includes both finding a comfortable amount of space on your computer screen, and, as mentioned in the previous point, having access to our information when we want it. See: Kindle, iPhone, etc…

Organizing information on a computer screen can be challenging enough, and monitors actually offer us relatively generous amounts of space. (Especially for those folks who have more than one.) We have the luxury of considering more information relevant because we have space to comfortably view and it.

But what about mobile devices?

Bye-bye screen real estate. All of a sudden everything is much smaller, and context changes drastically. What we might have considered marginally relevant before no longer qualifies as “interesting enough” when reading even a paragraph requires squinting and scrolling. Our reading priorities for relevant information now shift focus strongly to “Do I have a place to read it?”

And with small mobile screens we still have to peruse all of our information to determine what qualifies as relevant and thus is worthy of the very limited screen space.

But what if that wasn’t the case?

What if we could Read What Matters anytime, anywhere?

Stay tuned…