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The issue of reading and organizing content is not primarily about what kind of software you should use to store things. The main problem is figuring out how to
by the-printer 3y ago
The issue of reading and organizing content is not primarily about what kind of software you should use to store things. The main problem is figuring out how to make sense of it all when seeking out the material and while reading it.
Decent insight:
- https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-answer-is-not-more-information https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-answer-is-not...
- https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/narrative-collapse https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/narrative-collaps...
- rchaud 3y agoNo, I think the author has it right. Problem #1 is managing the firehose of information.
- the-printer 3y agoI don't disagree with either you or the author in principle. But I find that the prevailing narrative surrounding dealing with information online covers tooling and not so much "narrative" itself. It's too easy to just turn someone else's firehose of information into your own firehose of information. When your collecting information with a specific task in mind (eg. work, hobbies) this may not always be the case and the need swings in the direction you and the author are speaking up for. I'm speaking more in respect to current events and news media, or circumstances that aren't immediately defined ("I need to learn this for work.", "I need to find headlights for my Volvo.")
- dredmorbius 3y agoI'd agree strongly. Moreover, if you're using third-party tools, you now have two problems: managing and organising content AND managing those tools and keeping track of their sunsets and shutdowns. (I've been bitten by that last twice, and still have un-migrated Readability articles. Made all the worse by the fact that Readability at some point employed its own URL-redirecting link-shortener ... which of course also went offline.)
- blueridge 3y ago+1 for Sacasas!