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My reading list strategy: - Send to Feedbin (https://feedbin.com/blog/2019/08/20/save-webpages-to-read-later/ https://feedbin.com/blog/2019/08/20/save-webpages

My reading list strategy: - Send to Feedbin (https://feedbin.com/blog/2019/08/20/save-webpages-to-read-later/ https://feedbin.com/blog/2019/08/20/save-webpages-to-read-la...) - Never look at it again

dewey 4y ago
I can confirm that this also works perfectly well for browser bookmarks!
- infinityplus1 4y ago
  That's why I keep hundreds of tabs open. If it is open, I'll read it one day. Otherwise there is no chance.
  - bakugo 4y ago
    >If it is open, I'll read it one day That's what you think until eventually you have 5k+ browser tabs open at once and your browser has slowed to a crawl so you need to dump them all into bookmarks or a session backup and start the cycle again
    - dewey 4y ago
      Or when you lose them for some reason (browser crash, accidentally closing all,...) and you realize you actually don't care that much and just move on with your life.
    - infinityplus1 4y ago
      Firefox let's me keep the tabs on standby. They don't take memory and only load when I click on them. Also I use vertical tabs using Sideberry extension. So it is easy to manage a huge amount of tabs.
      - klardotsh 4y ago
        I can confirm first-hand that once you hit about 2.8k tabs across two windows, typing in the address bar when opening a new tab gets unusably sluggish even on an AMD 3900X as it tries to search all the tabs for matches to switch to, even if the tabs themselves are unloaded. Tridactyl also gets unusable. I finally cleared all the tabs out last week and started over, because it was clear my "reading list" was simply never getting read, ever. There were tabs from February still in there, never read.
vongomben 4y ago
I do the same, but with pocket and the kobo aura. Nice read things asynchronously
- clarents 4y ago
  Oh cool, I didn't know they had this feature. I wish they had feedly integration, too.
phgn 4y ago
Devil's advocate: Why do you save links if you never look at them again?
- layer8 4y ago
  It relieves FOMO, and your mind can maintain the illusion that you might get around to looking at them after all.
  - kubanczyk 4y ago
    I'd argue it increases FOMO, but feeds on loss aversion (no need to trash a "valuable" link, no need to read anything, but a need to own the list forever).
athenot 4y ago
I use Add to Reading List in Safari, and like you for the most part don't look at it again... except when I'm on an airplane without wifi, because in the mean time it will have downloaded the page and synced with my phone. So I have a collection of offline reading material always there.
tankado 4y ago
I have a similar approach but I use Instapaper

My reading list strategy: - Send to Feedbin (https://feedbin.com/blog/2019/08/20/save-webpages-to-read-later/ https://feedbin.com/blog/2019/08/20/save-webpages-to-read-la...) - Never look at it again

dewey 4y ago

I can confirm that this also works perfectly well for browser bookmarks!

infinityplus1 4y ago
That's why I keep hundreds of tabs open. If it is open, I'll read it one day. Otherwise there is no chance.
- bakugo 4y ago
  >If it is open, I'll read it one day That's what you think until eventually you have 5k+ browser tabs open at once and your browser has slowed to a crawl so you need to dump them all into bookmarks or a session backup and start the cycle again
  - dewey 4y ago
    Or when you lose them for some reason (browser crash, accidentally closing all,...) and you realize you actually don't care that much and just move on with your life.
  - infinityplus1 4y ago
    Firefox let's me keep the tabs on standby. They don't take memory and only load when I click on them. Also I use vertical tabs using Sideberry extension. So it is easy to manage a huge amount of tabs.
    - klardotsh 4y ago
      I can confirm first-hand that once you hit about 2.8k tabs across two windows, typing in the address bar when opening a new tab gets unusably sluggish even on an AMD 3900X as it tries to search all the tabs for matches to switch to, even if the tabs themselves are unloaded. Tridactyl also gets unusable. I finally cleared all the tabs out last week and started over, because it was clear my "reading list" was simply never getting read, ever. There were tabs from February still in there, never read.

vongomben 4y ago

I do the same, but with pocket and the kobo aura. Nice read things asynchronously

clarents 4y ago
Oh cool, I didn't know they had this feature. I wish they had feedly integration, too.

phgn 4y ago

Devil's advocate: Why do you save links if you never look at them again?

layer8 4y ago
It relieves FOMO, and your mind can maintain the illusion that you might get around to looking at them after all.
- kubanczyk 4y ago
  I'd argue it increases FOMO, but feeds on loss aversion (no need to trash a "valuable" link, no need to read anything, but a need to own the list forever).

athenot 4y ago

I use Add to Reading List in Safari, and like you for the most part don't look at it again... except when I'm on an airplane without wifi, because in the mean time it will have downloaded the page and synced with my phone. So I have a collection of offline reading material always there.

tankado 4y ago

I have a similar approach but I use Instapaper