I know we all consume media differently, so this suggestion may not be right for you.

Personally I feel like my life has greatly improved by using kill-the-newsletter to convert email newsletters to RSS feeds. It generates an email address to use to signup for the newsletter, and an .xml feed to get the contents of the mails.

This has allowed me to get a greater variety of stuff I’m already interested into my RSS feed, and to clean out my inbox of so many unread mails.

I started using Outlook for Android, primarily because its integration of Cortona allowed it to be extremely easy to read and reply to email while I was driving via my car’s Bluetooth handsfree system, but all the newsletters with links, including things like my power bill, that I’m never going to need to reply to, made that process far less enjoyable/useful than it otherwise would be. The all now show in my RSS feed instead. Most of that content is more digestible when I’m in a place to just “have fun on the internet” versus mixing it with the important stuff in my email inbox, and friends get lost waiting days for replies because i never saw it due to them sending it hours before i next checked my email. I’ve even moved to putting mail group discussions into RSS, and leaving my personal email on “send only” so that if something is interesting enough for me to reply, I can do so in my mail client, but otherwise if I’m just reading stuff again it can be part of my free time.