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For the benefit of people like me, I'm quoting the part of the article that should have been at the top. > 1. Create a Word or Google document to track your bo
by qart 6y ago
For the benefit of people like me, I'm quoting the part of the article that should have been at the top.
> 1. Create a Word or Google document to track your books if spreadsheets fill you with fear.
> 2. You don’t need to read the whole book. Write down your ONE thing from the part of the book you did read.
> 3. Review the document weekly, to keep the ideas fresh in your mind.
> 4. If you find that you stopped implementing your ONE thing, go back to the book and either continue reading where you had left off or reread the part that you already read.
I'll go read the entire article some other time.
- gcatalfamo 6y agoThank you so much. They make articles for people with ADHD then make it unreadable for them.
- arkitaip 6y agoArticles on procrastination have a similar problem and I would tell you exactly what that problem was but I never finish reading the articles...
- timw4mail 6y agoIs this recursive irony?
- nicbou 6y agoI believe that those articles are unreadable for everyone. They are written for search engines. I built a whole business around giving straightforward answers. I remove superfluous text, and I use formatting to make my content easier to skim. There's no clickbait, no cookie notice, no newsletter prompt, no author bio and no sidebar content. There's just you and the answer you came for, and it loads in under 500 milliseconds. This is working so well that it makes me wonder why other websites go out of their way to hide their answers. When I have simple gardening questions ("how much sun does [plant] need?", I have to click 3-4 results and scroll a few pages to get the answer. Even with a finely tuned ad blocker, the experience is infuriating.
- gcatalfamo 6y agoCan you link me your website?
- nicbou 6y agoYou will find it in my post history. I'd rather not spam it too much here.
- OnionBlender 6y agoAre you just referring to your blog? I went through a dozen pages of your comment history thinking you had a website about giving straight forward answers to questions.
- nicbou 6y agoIt's All About Berlin, not my personal blog
- shoto_io 6y agoI wonder if all this clutter can be avoided somehow. I mean basically all other text is there for search engines only.
- retSava 6y agoDon't forget that you also need to add filler so you can shove a couple of ads in the middle of the stream. Add a side-story about your uncle that is completely irrelevant so you have room for one ad more! Then paginate the thing so the ads on the sides + top and bottom can reload for more impressions. And we feel it's important to offer our readers a nice flow, so add some history events so the back-button doesn't work properly anymore. And don't forget the modal to subscribe to the newsletter!
- bruce343434 6y ago[continue reading this article]
- shoto_io 6y agoThese are great tips! Can I hire you as SEO/Ad/site structure consultant?? oh, btw: haven't you forgotten to mention the Outbrain Ads that look like articles in the bottom of the page?
- nicbou 6y agoI created a website that does the opposite of that, and it works so well that I wonder why they bother doing this. I click away from so many websites because of all the friction they cause.
- lewispollard 6y agoHave to say, as someone with reasonably severe inattentive-type ADHD, the hard part of this wouldn't so much be reading the book, but maintaining those documents and reviewing them weekly. The amount of half-finished lists, organisers, documents, etc I have on every cloud, note-taking and todo-list platform available that I never look at again in attempts to organise things like this is too high to count.