> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://makoism.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Mind Palace - URL: https://makoism.com/mindpalace-54667ab6d98b/ - Published: 2021-01-17T17:27:27.000Z - Updated: 2021-01-17T17:27:27.000Z - Description: Get out. I need to go to my mind palace. - Author: Steve Makofsky - Tags: makoism, #newsletter-makoism, #substack ### The Mind Palace ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/8f/618f2076-e6a0-40dc-8037-06080661dee7/content/images/public/images/464f246a-b4a6-43a2-bbd7-160efa7a1984_1024x768.jpeg) looks like a brain This is an **update** to my earlier post on [The Mind Garden](https://furrygoat.com/the-mind-garden-c2dc956bade5) as I’ve been spending a bunch of time on this over the last several months, and have had several folks reach out to see where I’ve landed. While earlier I talked about [Flow](https://furrygoat.com/flow-77d6348dbfc1) and [mind gardens](https://nesslabs.com/mind-garden) my more recent focus has been inspired from none other than [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FConan%5FDoyle)’s famous detective, [Sherlock Holmes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock%5FHolmes). The [most recent BBC/Masterpiece series](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/) reinvented the character brilliantly, and leveraged a fascinating concept from Ancient Greece known as **the mind palace**. The [basic memory technique](https://www.lifehack.org/562103/sherlock-holmes-memory-palace-proven-technique-can-practice-daily-life) is described as: > you visualize a complex place in which you could physically store a set of memories. That place can be a building such as a house, but it can also be something like a road with multiple addresses. > Every room is home to a specific item you want to remember, and when you need to recall a memory, you can walk through the building in your mind, seeing and remembering each item. While I haven’t gotten anywhere near memorizing things (my wife would say that I have no memory), I need to leverage two tools — [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) and [Reeder](https://reederapp.com) — that get me close to the digital equivalent of it. #### Feedly Ever since [Google abandoned Google Reader in 2013](https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html), I have been using [Feedly](https://feedly.com) as the backend service to handle my RSS feeds. You can think of [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) as a site/storage that allows you to read all of your publications, blogs, and newsletters. That’s the wonderful thing when tech is designed to inter-operate, it can be used [on the web](https://feedly.com), [their mobile app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feedly-smart-news-reader/id396069556), or a variety of other [RSS (Really Simple Syndication)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) readers such as [Reeder](https://reederapp.com) (which I use; more below). It was super easy to import my legacy “feeds” into [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) and be on my way. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/8f/618f2076-e6a0-40dc-8037-06080661dee7/content/images/public/images/88f999f0-5343-412c-acb5-6d8436817d80_1024x861.png) Feedly **A note on subscription services** — When [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) offered a [pro “lifetime” subscription](https://feedly.com/i/pro/landing-pro) for the first 5000 people; I was fortunate to grab one. When they introduced Pro+ with additional AI features (called Leo), they offered an upgrade for those users — I quickly grabbed that. Today they continue to offer subscription plans for both; and while it’s not as wonderful as *lifetime*, it’s worth the monthly cost to support them. Feedly is my news feed **backend** — it allows me to stay in sync across the devices I use and have sources I follow organized. It has the usual integrations that you would expect with [Pocket](https://getpocket.com) (which I’ve recently dumped), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/), [Evernote](https://evernote.com) (which I dumped years ago), etc. #### Newsletters In September, [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) [added the ability to receive newsletters](https://blog.feedly.com/get-newsletters-in-feedly/). As my inbox was starting to overflow with them, this **was a fantastic way to start receiving them** in the same “reader” that I was using to consume the rest of my feeds. Suddenly my “reading content” was starting to centralize; which was an amazing boost to my productivity. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/8f/618f2076-e6a0-40dc-8037-06080661dee7/content/images/public/images/c1b5ac71-de45-4e4d-8481-3aee7a29a935_248x396.png) folders I created a folder in [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) called (obviously) ‘newsletters’, and added feeds for any I could find (for ex, any [Substack](https://substack.com/) newsletter or medium site can [be added by ending the URL with ](https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038239391-Is-there-an-RSS-feed-for-my-publication-)**[/feed](https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038239391-Is-there-an-RSS-feed-for-my-publication-)**) or used [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) to create a created a **unique** email address for each newsletter I wanted to subscribe to. My email was once again “freed” from random things to read. #### Information Bonanza Now that articles and newsletters are in a single place, I started to mess with what “other” information I could put in there. [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) brilliantly allows you [integrate with things like Twitter](https://blog.feedly.com/get-tweets-in-feedly/). You can add/follow Twitter accounts, hashtags, lists, and searches directly into your [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) reading. In fact, [Feedly supports tons of various integrations](https://blog.feedly.com/the-11-types-of-sources-you-can-add-to-feedly/) where you can add: - **Newsletters** and **Twitter** — as mentioned above. - **Reddit** — follow [Reddit](https://reddit.com/) searches, subreddits, your [Reddit](https://reddit.com/) homepage - **Keyword alerts** — monitor a [specific keyword on Goggle News](https://blog.feedly.com/follow-google-news/), have the article show up in your reading list. - **Research Journals** — I haven’t dug too deep into this, but looks like [you can use PubMed feeds](https://blog.feedly.com/streamline-your-scientific-research-with-pubmed-feeds/) as well as other research journals. - **YouTube Channels** — subscribe to [Youtube](https://youtube.com/) channels and get lists when new videos are published. - **Podcasts** I’ve begun to start adding in more content from various places while I’m trying to avoid information overload; that’s where Leo comes in… #### Leo AI Now that you have all this information in a single place, keeping up with the things you really care about can become a bit overwhelming. [This is where the Leo AI comes in](https://blog.feedly.com/leo/). [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) offers finite control over your feeds to help you prioritize topics, trends, and keywords of choice; deduplicate repetitive news; mute irrelevant information; summarize articles, etc. For example, I have Leo agents built that examine all of the content I am subscribed to, and if it relates to the topic of “storytelling”, Leo makes it a priority in the things that I read. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/8f/618f2076-e6a0-40dc-8037-06080661dee7/content/images/public/images/cf50ae99-6ebc-4ba5-a4fb-4f6019bfd3d6_961x600.png) Leo’s AI **This has been an absolute game changer for me**. There’s a ton of other functionality — read later, annotations, summaries, boards, newsletters in [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) that I didn’t get into; but there’s a plethora of super fun things to try in here to optimize how you discover and consume content. #### Reeder The second part of my mind palace is [Reeder](https://reederapp.com) on both [Mac](https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1529448980) and [iOS](https://apps.apple.com/app/id1529445840). Reeder 5.0 is where I go to read and curate content. It’s both a news reader and **read later client** in one app, and supports iCloud syncing. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/8f/618f2076-e6a0-40dc-8037-06080661dee7/content/images/public/images/23cc4c8e-1d93-4723-b843-982b0cbd3959_1024x789.png) Feedly via Reeder It’s pretty straightforward from here — I read/review all my [Feedly](https://feedly.com/) content in app, and my reading/sync list is automatically shared between all of my devices. If there’s content that I want to save in the **digital mind palace**, I save and tag it within [Reeders iCloud Read Later](https://www.macstories.net/reviews/reeder-5-review-read-later-tagging-icloud-sync-and-design-refinements/) service. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/8f/618f2076-e6a0-40dc-8037-06080661dee7/content/images/public/images/085a593b-1b78-4c94-b6da-04ac4f679ad9_1024x789.png) Read it Later [Reeder](https://reederapp.com) also [supports things such as widgets](https://www.imore.com/reeder-5-sneaks-app-store-ios-14-widgets-icloud-sync-more) if you’re into that. #### Summary In the end this workflow has been working **very** well for me this year. I was able to get rid of several old tools, and have been spending more time reading and discovering new content through Feedly’s fantastic integrations. I hear more is coming soon from Feedly on this front — the best part is that it’s all done with standards — so my front end reading workflow in Reeder won’t have to change. Until next time….