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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your online reading list?

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+1 for Pocket I have a Kobo e-reader (the Kobo has built in Pocket sync). So I just installed the Pocket extension for Chrome and on the icon to send any web article from the desktop to my e-reader. This saves me a lot of eye strain. This has also done wonders for my productivity. Before: 1) Computer hangs on some task (query running, software compiling, porgram installing, excel calculation etc) 2) Open Browser to s…

That's the exact same workflow I use. Then I read later when things are truly slow, or after work or the weekends. It has the downside of ballooning the number of items in your Pocket list, but if you ignore the "must read everything" impulse and skip/delete items, then it's fine. I usually hit "Pocket-Zero" a few times per week.

True! I've had that feeling myself when I started saving everything to pocket. So I created a few "self constraints":

I don't save articles that are "current news", this decreases the list significantly and takes the timing pressure off from achieving "pocket-zero".

I only save articles that interest me regardless of the timing.

I also use another "trick": for resources that reference other things I would like to read in the future (articles that mention authors or books) I send them to pocket > mark as favourite > archive. Then when I finish reading my current book of choice I go to the favourites archive and pick through what I want to read next.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your online reading list?

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If I can't read it in a few minutes, I use a "send to Kindle" chrome extension. I don't bookmark long reads anymore.

I do most of my reading at night, in bed. My Kindle is constantly loaded with longer pieces that had sat in my bookmarks unread before. Once I'm done reading, I usually just delete the article from my Kindle.

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