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What is your HN content consumption strategy?
Maybe this sentence sounds familiar for you as well: "I have loads of bookmarked HN links."
Whenever I find time - this is my default productive procrastination action - I organize them even better or I start reading the content then reading all the comments. This process has few subsequent steps:
- if new links, book references, etc. appear in the comments, I quickly skim them and, of course, add them to the bookmarks queue
- I extract the main ideas from the article as well as all the info I want to retain from the comments and add them to a dedicated page in my personal Wiki (say it is an article about Productivity, I add all the new info in my Productivity wiki page if I have one, or create one if not
- sometimes I create ANKI cards using the content, but not so often as creating good cards takes a lot of time (and this is actually the step I think has the most value out of the entire process)
Now the problem with all this is that is life consuming. I can't do it properly and scale, I have many interests, therefore many bookmarks that keep piling up. I run a mid-size software development studio, have a newborn and have been diagnosed with ADHD, so all these being very impactful in my schedule, leading only to more bookmarks and frustration. I can't convince myself to just delete all the bookmarks and unchain myself, although I thought about it few dozen times.
I am looking for your practical / mental / emotional approach on consuming HN as a source of inspiration for tampering with my own behavior.
Thank you!
- flerovium 5y agoTry Algolia's weekly and monthly summaries: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal... Then HN is a source of information, not entertainment, and not a habit. TIP: typo in the title, "consmuption"
- simonblack 5y agoOnce a day, I scan the article titles for the last 24 hours. If a title looks interesting I will open that article and/or the discussion comments in a browser tab. Then if the body is interesting in the first few paragraphs I will read the whole article. I have sometimes looked at summaries of 'the most popular articles', but have discarded them. Many of the articles that interest me would not be included in those.