As the digital landscape becomes increasingly noisy, busy and, arguably, all-consuming, it strikes me there’s a growing need for digital prioritization.

By “prioritization”, I mean there is a need for a service that can determine which conversations, Tweets, Facebook messages, blog posts and e-mails are the most important based on specific needs, interests and circumstances.

This service would sift through everything, and determine which ones are the most important and, as a result, need to be consumed now, and those that can be consumed later.

For example, you could configure your e-mail setting to divide your in-box into three sections: respond immediately; should be reviewed today, and not a priority. The same goes for your Twitter stream: posts that should be check out ASAP, those that are somewhat interesting, and those (e.g. I’m craving a coffee) that can be ignored or checked out much later.

Given how busy people are becoming and how important it can be to know what you should be looking at sooner rather than later, this might even be a service that people would be willing to pay for.

More: A company that I forgot to mention when talking about digital prioritization is AideRSS, which offers a service that determines what blog posts within your RSS reader are the most urgent or important.

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