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This hit home! I recently cleared through thousands of bookmarks. Many of the sites weren't there anymore, many of them were things I thought 'would be a good
by iamben 4y ago
This hit home!
I recently cleared through thousands of bookmarks. Many of the sites weren't there anymore, many of them were things I thought 'would be a good read at some point' or things I thought 'were a good read'. A couple of them I read during the cleanse, most were impractically out of date or just not worth it/interesting anymore (life changes!). From that point I made a note to only bookmark sites I'm likely to actually need/use again, and they go into category folders (which makes me think twice about bookmarking as opposed to just pressing the star blindly).
Anything else I want to read I'll open in a new tab and suspend if I'm not reading straight away. I go through the tabs fairly regularly in a relatively brutal "am I actually going to read this" way and close them if not.
I've tried many, many ways of 'storing' things for recall ("those 10 rules for life were fantastic!") but the reality of it is I never revisit 99% of those things and for the 1% I can usually google it (or find a more up to date substitute). Code snippets are ever so slightly different (but not much!). There's probably something much better to store visual things (like screenshots of great websites etc.) - I'm just not sure I want to start doing this.
Long and short I'm trying to take the same approach to information as I do to my wardrobe - if I'm not wearing it, why's it in there?
- robofanatic 4y ago> I recently cleared through thousands of bookmarks Wow that’s some dedication. For me bookmarking doesn’t work, still I do it. My bad habit I guess ;-) I never revisit that stuff, because there is always so much new and more exciting stuff coming in all the time that the old stuff seems almost irrelevant.
- iamben 4y agoYeah, that was me exactly! I just couldn't face that massive long list anymore - it had been ported from computer to computer for years and was the digital equivalent of clearing out the garage (and it felt great afterwards)! It was amazing how useless half of them now were.
- jodrellblank 4y agoTask for a future-tech AI; feed the AI all the articles/books/bookmarks/ideas you would like to have read or 'should' read, and then see what kind of a person it becomes after ingesting them.
- iamben 4y agoThere's a Black Mirror episode here!