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I actually solved this without an app. I realized I had around 10k "read later" items in my bookmarks folder in Chrome, and I simply deleted all of them.
by faeyanpiraat 4y ago
I actually solved this without an app. I realized I had around 10k "read later" items in my bookmarks folder in Chrome, and I simply deleted all of them.
- rcme 4y agoYes. Most information is truly worthless.
- fruit2020 4y agoNot worthless, but too much. Life is short, you need focus
- hombre_fatal 4y agoI think it's more that you always have a bunch of other things competing for your attention on the internet so there's no incentive to read things you once wanted to read. Even an article you just opened in a tab competes with scavenging for more info on HN/Reddit/Twitter. I don't think that's evidence that the articles are just worthless. Once, when the internet was out for a few days, I realized that iOS saves your reading list items for offline reading and I was glad to have it. All sorts of interesting articles that I curated. I now work through the reading queue on flights.
- artursapek 4y agoThis is the kind of black pill I come to Hacker News for
- samstave 4y agohttps://i.imgur.com/NCOBsKv.png https://i.imgur.com/NCOBsKv.png
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- JohnFen 4y agoThe value of most information is context-dependent.
- eganist 4y agoIn fairness, I think the allure of an app is to act as a forcing function for actually reading the content before it disappears.
- jacobr1 4y agoI do this semi-periodically now. At the end of the week I close all tabs, I archive everything in my inbox, mark all items in my slack as read ...
- JenrHywy 4y agoI solved this by forcing myself to read my list in chronological order. After a small period it became very obvious that most stuff I'd put in my list truly did not matter.