Ask IH: Does your list of things-to-read-later also get unbearably long?
Ask IH: Does your list of things-to-read-later also get unbearably long?
I used Pocket in the past but had to stop after I had 500+ articles to read. What other apps do people use? Do you experience the same issue with those?
Ive come to peace with it ;-)
I only bookmark stuff to get rid of the feeling. If its really interesting and important I'll just make the time to read it.
Most things which i keep open in a browser tab are not that interesting anymore the next day
So you don't have 20+ tabs open on your browser (another problem I have), since you kill tabs the next day after reading/bookmarking/dismissing them?
Also, just so I understand, you bookmark links knowing you are very unlikely to go back to them, it's just that you have acknowledged that while I'm here stressing about it :P?
I do have 20+ tabs open, but usually not over several days. I try to start every day with a "clean" browser.
Yes, I bookmark some stuff just so I can throw the tab away without bad feelings. But as I have no process to read them they are gone.
At some point the whole exercise becomes kind of useless. There's more content to read than I ever will have time to consume. Just keep a list of the next few things you want to read, update periodically as you run out. I have stacks and stacks of books I haven't read. When I need a book, I look through what I have and pick what I'm most motivated to read. That's it.
I tried keeping all the tabs open if I wanted to read something, then my Mac crashed because it ran out of memory (: Usually never end up reading most of the stuff I (supposedly) want to read.
I figured out a way to use Trello for this and it worked really well for me, I've set up a board called "Queue". I send urls to it from the web through the Add To Trello [1] chrome extension, and from mobile (iPhone) through the Trello app share menu extension.
The flexibility that this adds comparing to Pocket is that you can filter content yourself and decide to which Trello list you want to send it. for simplicity I keep 2 lists called "Web" and "Mobile."
I occasionally filter them on trello.com to articles, courses and add reminders (due dates), tags... if necessary.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/add-to-trello/engmocckoohpopiacajolojeobefbcec?hl=en-US
thats a great idea! Love trello!
There is a feature of Firefox I use albeit accidentally. It's called "Pin Tab". I usually pin urls over a long period of time and unpin ones I read already.
Ever so often I accidentally create a new window and close the one with the tabs then exit firefox. When I reopen it all my tabs are gone, thus I have started a fresh by force.
most of the things to read aren't 'things to read', some are things that you want to be in the 'know' about. The title of the book/article is something you aspire to be.
'Four Hour Work Week' (which is actually a good book) - hmmm I want that let me bookmark it
'How to Win Friends and Influence people' (another goldmine) - hell yea I want to be that better bookmark it
I agree! I noticed that many of the links I save for later are not articles but tools I think I may need in the future (like a Machine Learning course or a cooking recipe).
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Would you say the links you store are almost all articles? I noticed that I like storing links that may help me in future tasks (for instance, I saved the Andrew Ng Machine learning course for reference when I want to dive into ML/AI).