I’ve arranged my workspace so that updates come to me without checking: MoR updates appear in my email, email in general has an icon on my taskbar, my RSS aggregator is on my taskbar, etc. The reward is thus entirely causally decoupled from behavior; I can never explicitly check at all, and still get the updates.
There are about four websites that I haven’t been able to get RSS-based updates for (including my LW inbox), and I consider the need to manually check these a moderate inconvenience.
Many free blogging services allow you to post to them by email, thus it’s possible to bounce all of the alerts coming into your email to your rss reader, which I’ve found to be a useful trick.
I’ve arranged my workspace so that updates come to me without checking: MoR updates appear in my email, email in general has an icon on my taskbar, my RSS aggregator is on my taskbar, etc. The reward is thus entirely causally decoupled from behavior; I can never explicitly check at all, and still get the updates.
There are about four websites that I haven’t been able to get RSS-based updates for (including my LW inbox), and I consider the need to manually check these a moderate inconvenience.
Many free blogging services allow you to post to them by email, thus it’s possible to bounce all of the alerts coming into your email to your rss reader, which I’ve found to be a useful trick.
http://page2rss.com/ is useful. I don’t know if it’ll work for things like your inbox that you have to login to see.