I have pondered this same challenge, and here's the two-part solution I use: 1. I make it easier for me to determine if a link will actually be interesting or

I have pondered this same challenge, and here's the two-part solution I use: 1. I make it easier for me to determine if a link will actually be interesting or useful to me by using an HN interface that pulls forward additional information from the linked article/site to help me make a more-informed decision without having to spend the time of going to the linked article/site. I use Timbo's Hacker News Reader [0] for this. 2. I feel your pain about multiple open tabs. What I do here once I've decided I do want to read a link is I email it to myself, and I use an email alias in my email client of choice so I can search for these emails later. For example, I use the email alias "aaa" for articles I want to listen to later (i.e., "a" is for "audio"). In my phone and in my gmail client, the "aaa" alias is my personal email address but with "+audio" tacked onto the end of the name so I can pull those out later using a Python program [1]. I have another alias called "rrr" that tacks on "+read" and these are for links I have to read with my eyes, since they're probably heavy on images or have a lot of code snippets. bonus part 3. The linchpin of this (or any) solution is that you have to make time to actually read the articles at some point. The problem of wanting to read more links than you actually are willing to make time for is a psychological one, not technical. It's like my other personal challenge of buying more books than I will actually make time to read. It's been a real balancing act to soberly decide whether such-and-such link or book is actually worth my time. Between work, family, and community, I have to be ruthlessly honest about what I do and don't have time for. All that to say, I think your question strikes at the heart of a challenge that many of us face and yet that many of us continue to struggle to resolve. [0] https://www.thnr.net https://www.thnr.net (disclaimer: I'm Timbo) see https://www.thnr.net/about/ https://www.thnr.net/about/ for some of the info that gets pulled forward (like thumbnail images, name of social media channel, GitHub project programming language percentages) [1] https://github.com/timoteostewart/benson https://github.com/timoteostewart/benson (disclaimer: I'm timoteostewart)