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I'm still always wishing that there would be some really good way to manage my information/media consumption in a simple, centralized way. I find Pocket unsatis

I'm still always wishing that there would be some really good way to manage my information/media consumption in a simple, centralized way. I find Pocket unsatisfactory. I'm talking particularly about books, videos (movies, youtube vids, netflix series, etc) and news articles online. My current system is ridiculously scattered.

JadeNB 10y ago
Apple really, really wants you to use iTunes for this. (Well, eventually, they decided that iTunes manages everything but books, so now we have iBooks, which doesn't even let you manage your own library.) In case you haven't used it, take my word for it that it's a disaster and you probably don't really want that.
- visakanv 10y ago
  Hahahaha yeah. I've tried a lot of different systems and tools and combinations, but I've never even gone near iTunes. I'm not sure why, I think I just have a subconscious intuition that it would be terrible. Goodreads is surprisingly frustrating to use, I wonder why nobody's made a better version yet.
  - extrapickles 10y ago
    All of the book sites seem to have really bad notifications that an author you like has released a new book. They heavily spam you with 'recommendations' to read books that you explicitly dont want to read, but never even a peep about authors you told them you like.
    - x0x0 10y ago
      Really? Goodreads reliably emails me every month about new releases of authors I've read. I actually love them for this, because amazon does a terrible job of notifying me when authors from whom I've bought multiple books release new books. ps: authors -- get a goddamn email list. You can write short fiction set in the same universe as your longer works and I'll buy it for $3 for 30 pages. Way more profitable than a whole book. Have a gap between releases? Spend 2 weeks and earn $10k or more. It's nearly free goddamn money. See, eg, Mira Grant.

JadeNB 10y ago

Apple really, really wants you to use iTunes for this. (Well, eventually, they decided that iTunes manages everything but books, so now we have iBooks, which doesn't even let you manage your own library.) In case you haven't used it, take my word for it that it's a disaster and you probably don't really want that.

visakanv 10y ago
Hahahaha yeah. I've tried a lot of different systems and tools and combinations, but I've never even gone near iTunes. I'm not sure why, I think I just have a subconscious intuition that it would be terrible. Goodreads is surprisingly frustrating to use, I wonder why nobody's made a better version yet.
- extrapickles 10y ago
  All of the book sites seem to have really bad notifications that an author you like has released a new book. They heavily spam you with 'recommendations' to read books that you explicitly dont want to read, but never even a peep about authors you told them you like.
  - x0x0 10y ago
    Really? Goodreads reliably emails me every month about new releases of authors I've read. I actually love them for this, because amazon does a terrible job of notifying me when authors from whom I've bought multiple books release new books. ps: authors -- get a goddamn email list. You can write short fiction set in the same universe as your longer works and I'll buy it for $3 for 30 pages. Way more profitable than a whole book. Have a gap between releases? Spend 2 weeks and earn $10k or more. It's nearly free goddamn money. See, eg, Mira Grant.