It's worth making a pact with yourself that you will revisit bookmarks and make use of them. I call them 'actionable items'. They're things you must take action on. I know the feeling of hoarding away knowledge bases and not acting, but you have to be accountable to yourself. You must act on them, because you said you would.
Ask HN: When we note down cool things for later, why do they feel boring?
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Re: Ask HN: When we note down cool things for later, why do they feel boring?
#12Novelty releases dopamine but diminishes exponentially. Things are only novel once, and briefly!
Re: Ask HN: When we note down cool things for later, why do they feel boring?
#13I sure do! I have hundreds of saved pocket articles that I'm too impatient to devote 20 minutes to reading. It's far more immediately gratifying to skim something for a minute and move on to the next factlet.
Re: Ask HN: When we note down cool things for later, why do they feel boring?
#14I think it's a good filter. I'll get excited about 100 things and only care about a few of them later.