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It would be great to be able to add an item to your OPML outline via a bookmarklet
eg. a bookmarklet for one of your outlines in OPML Workstation.

I’d like to be able to click the bookmarklet to add the URL of the page I’m on (HTML link, RSS feed, OPML URL) to a section in one of my outlines, or even just add some text in a box.

If del.icio.us had an OPML URL for every user, then this could be the answer. It wouldn’t be a usual outliner, but del.icio.us could be an outline that has a 1st level folder with items that are links or feeds, although most people bookmark normal HTML links…I wonder if it could also offer an outline tree view.

Anyway, if a del.icio.us user tag had an OPML URL, you could call this tag “Reading List”, and bookmark feeds within this tag. This tag would be a Reading List and people could subscribe to its URL in an RSS Reader, any changes you make would automatically be reflected in who ever subscribes to it.

So whenever you come across a feed you like, hit the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and save it in the “Reading List” tag.

RSSor would be most suitable for this type of thing, as it is a focused folksonomy for feeds (and an RSS Reader as well), if only each tag had an OPML URL, or at the account level.

Feedmarker is an RSS Reader that has an OPML for every feed tag, Rojo could do the same, ie. an OPML URL for every tag you organise your feeds in…this way when you hit the bookmarklet to add a feed you are adding it to the Reading List at the same time.

Steven Cohen writes about a great implementation for OPML

We often leave comments on blogs and forget about them
- we can bookmark these posts and remember to look at them later on
- some comments have an email notification
- some blogs have a comment feed for each post

These are all OK, and since everyone uses an RSS Reader these days, they might prefer the last method, but this often clutters our RSS readers with too many outdated feeds

Solution

Some RSS Readers automatically delete unread feeds after a certain date

Keep your comment post RSS feeds in another RSS Reader for these types of feeds, or even use a specialised service like Commentosphere - is a service to archive all comments you have made, it also has an internal RSS Reader where you can subscribe to comments feeds and read them.

Well, Steven is suggesting to make an OPML URL for all these comments feeds, then subscribe to this one URL instead of all the single feeds. This way they don’t clutter and get lost within all your feeds…just clean up this OPML URL once and a while, don’t know if you can do auto delete after a set time period.

You can even do this within your email client via FeedBlitz.

FeedBlitz users can subscribe to RSS feeds, and have the contents delivered as an email…publishers (bloggers) can also use this service as an email subscription for their blog.

Following in the steps of BlogBridge FeedBlitz users can now subscribe to Reading Lists, ie. they can subscribe to an OPML URL (that contains feeds), if feeds are added/deleted by the owner of this OPML URL, then it will reflect also in your subscription.

If you have a list of subscribers you can also create a local OPML file of your subscriber list…I think any type of list should have an OPML file, so you can apply it elsewhere.

Also to note is that FeedBlitz have enabled a subscriber number chicklet.