Manually managing songs and playlists in iTunes

My hard drive crashed so I'm now manually managing the songs that get updated to the iPod. Looking for tips on how to quickly tell which songs in the Library are new and have not been updated to iPod. I understand the Recently Added playlist (mostly/kinda), any clever tips on how to use that playlist to help manage the pipeline?
-- How long do songs stay in Recently Added folder?
-- I tried Unchecking Selection in Recently Added, but then the songs also get unchecked in the Library and won't play in Shuffle mode
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Thanks, Katrina. Also got response from another source that had pretty simple solution building off Hudgie's, for those facing similar problem:
-- right click on Recently Added playlist, click Edit Smart Playlist
-- make sure the box is checked for Match the following rule
-- confirm or select Date Added from first drop-down box and fill in rest of drop downs so you set very short time-frame criteria (a few days or 1-2 weeks, depending on how often you are adding songs to iTunes)
-- list will clear out after timeframe expires, so next batch of imported or purchased songs will create "pipeline" list in Recently Added playlist that can be used to update iPod.

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Denis DCS wrote:
...New iTunes installation...
There's the magic words right there.
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