How much time do you spend every day, clicking from one site to the next, over and over, just to check and see if they have new content? That is my morning ritual. Every day I open all of my bookmarks and click through every single one, just to check for any updates. Granted, a lot of them have been updated, so the time is not completely wasted, but the time to load all of the tabs, click and scroll through everything, eats up a lot of minutes I could have used actually doing work.
But there is a solution to this dilemma that will make your life easier, and give you more time to exist in the real world. Have you ever heard of RSS for websites? A website RSS feed uses Really Simple Syndication (hence the RSS part) to constantly update an RSS reader with their up to date content. With an RSS reader, you can subscribe to any and all of the RSS feeds that you want, and it collects them into one convenient little package for your viewing pleasure.
Website RSS feeds can be viewed two ways. You can find a reader that works through your internet browser, that you just log into and can see the content for all of your favorite sites, all updated and in order. Or, you can get a reader that you download onto your computer. It acts as a server, much like a Microsoft Outlook email server, that is constantly hooked to the internet and reads your RSS feeds. That way is nice because it is a separate running program, and does not require messing around in a browser. Yet the browser website RSS feed viewer is nice, because once you set it up and have an account, you can view your content from anywhere.
You may even be able to find an app for your smart phone that works with your RSS feeds, for the most portable convenience. Regardless of what you decide to use for your RSS feed reader, you should certainly be looking for one. To not use RSS is like saying you do not like your life to be convenient. And if you have a Twitter account, you have no excuse.