I have developed a management strategy that may be useful for others...
FIRST...
I have discovered that my "members" page (click the link at the top of the screen and then search for yourself) has an option to "show posts" which lists all of the posts I have made and includes links the the topics where they were made. This allows me to follow up on any comments I have made without having to remember where I made them.
To save myself the trouble of searching for myself on the members page I have stored an external link to that page in a "mylinks.html" text file where I have lots of other links to websites that I use - I find it easier to use for regular stuff than the Opera browser bookmarks.
SECOND...
I limit myself to the Project Guidance and Programming Questions areas and I am careful to click "Mark Read" each time when I am finished browsing.
If there were useful tags on posts I would probably be tempted to follow one or two of those as well.
...R