I love sharing items on Google Reader, but there are many posts I read that I only want to share with a specific person. I have been emailing those posts (just press ‘E’) to my specific friends. I feel fine doing this in most cases, especially if the other person doesn’t use Google Reader. But for the people I want to share lots of things with and dont want to clog up in their inbox, I’ve found another solution.
I was playing around in Settings->Tags and noticed that you can make any tag a Public Page, which also has a feed. So, create a tag for a friend you share posts with often, make the tag public, and tell them to add the feed to their reader. Now whenever you want to share a post with a specific person, just tag it with their name (keyboard shortcut: ‘T’). No more clogged inboxes…and you can look at what you’ve shared with them by looking at the tag.
btw, i don’t like that when i send email from non-gmail google services that it is not in my sent mail.