I have had My6sense on my iPhone for over a year but only started using it actively once after I met Barak Hachamov at TechCrunch Disrupt about 6 weeks ago and he convinced me to give it a real try – since then I’ve used it constantly every day – and probably put about 20-30 hours of solid time into My6sense.

Also, I wrote about it TechCrunch Disrupt(d) and my Interview with Barak Hachamov – Founder of My6sense Inc – you can find most of the initial details about My6sense.  Barak mentioned if I used My6sense for 3 or 4 weeks solid I would notice the quality of incoming data (from my RSS feeds, Twitter and Facebook) would be sorted by what is important to me and it would greatly simplify the information flow coming to me.

So far, that goal hasn’t really happened and I’m in level 4 for about 2+ weeks and have no idea when I’m going to progress (see below).

What I’m finding is the information I get from my Google Reader is easier for me to digest then what I got out of My6sense – even though My6sense is supposed to learn from me and re-order the information based on what it thinks I want to see.

I think I’m not the typical reader – I have already taken a lot of care in selecting my data feeds – I already know the information I want to read about – My6sense, as far as I can see, so far, offered little improvement and a lot of duplication in what I read.   IN theory , I should only  need to read the first few pages of My6sense filtered by relevance – but ended up, most of the time reading the same stories twice – once in Google Reader and once in My6sense.

Also, My6sense had one limitation that Google Reader – via Byline does not have – I can store stories ahead of time and comment on them – My6sense requires an active internet connection to function – which has often been really annoying.

Since I’ve been at “Mastering” level for so long (several weeks) I can’t even tell if I’m progressing – or when I’ll get to the final, 6th level – or what I’ll get at that level than I’m not getting now – all of that is unclear.

It’s possible that in a few more weeks I’ll be at level 5 (if I’m willing to continue to work at My6sense) and will be able to say – Wow!   But after 6 weeks I’m wondering what it will take to even get to level 5 much less, level 6.

Another thing that My6Sense needs to do is update the iPhone App for OS4, so far I can no longer comment on Facebook and Twitter once the upgrade happened.   I would hope an update to the application is coming soon – I read a lot of stories and like to note my reactions and thoughts – and while I can still post to my social media stream – I can’t comment on my posts.

Having thought about this a lot – I would say, at this point, the idea of what My6sense does is more interesting, for me, than what I’m actually seeing it doing – that reordering my numerous feeds might not be enough of a reason to use the product as what I get when I have selected my own sources of information is actually working better for me – but that is just my opinion.

I find just looking at Google Reader via Byline is much easier for me to process – so while I believe for the novice user – who hasn’t really figured out what they want to read – My6sense might offer benefit – for me – I have yet to find one.

But I will continue to use My6sense for a few more weeks in the hope I will get to level 6 (Lord of the Senses) and see something totally beyond what I’m seeing now.