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I had an idea about this just today: What I want is to be able to quickly save things off without cluttering up tabs (like a "read later") but be periodically reminded what's in there. My thinking is a daily digest pulling a random sample of the saved articles, with quick actions to either leave things on the pile if I'm still interested but still don't have time to read or to remove them if I've lost interest. Anyon…
What is the point of collecting, if you don't consume them? Do you even consume? How many of them are still relevant? How many of those items have any relevant worth? Does this harm your live? Or is this separate from important items? You should figure out which are important, and get rid of the irrelevant. And better start with the biggest storage-waste to free your space. And if you can't decide, remove it all. Thi…
If you've further annotated the material (added tags or other metadata), then the value increases further.
What's the use of a library, generally?
It doesn't have to be read to be useful, at least not in its entirety. It may exist to be queried, or to vet/validate future information.
One question that I'm making to myself is: what if I just delete everything? Worst case scenario nothing bad will happen. Less (stuff) generally is more (value).
Each morning that I wake up, I look over my "check this each day" list, and make a list of everything I want done for that day on my third to-do list (the one that I delete all contents of at the end of the day, and leave a blank template). I have habitual habits labeled as "ritual 1" (such as waking up & eating & showering & hygienic stuff) and evening stuff labeled as "ritual 2", so that instead of writing all of those smaller tasks out that I do each day, I know in my head what they are when I see "ritual 1" and so forth. You can use other terms other than "ritual xyz".
Since I have began this process, my to-do lists have been much more manageable. The drawback I suppose is I look at my "master map" to-do list much less than I used to, although I do look it over from time to time to see how I'm doing.
For my journal I categorize everything inside of it. It is not as organized as it could be, but it gets more organized as time passes.
For my work, I use a centralized service. It is extremely organized.
Best of luck to you. I hope my suggestions are helpful, especially my to-do lists suggestion, because I believe a to-do list system like that is very helpful.
Relax, be kind to yourself. The finance analogy isn’t right, because debt is something you have to pay and these things, or at least most of them, don’t require you to do anything. If you have too many emails to get through, yes, unsubscribe ruthlessly. If your storage costs too much, yes, delete ruthlessly. Now, accept that you will never make use of everything you’ve found. That doesn’t matter. That’s also true of…
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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Fortunately for you, you'll discover soon enough that Pocket is utterly useless for accessing/reading the contents you've saved. It's Mozilla's Giant Cloud Recycle Bin.
Weird. To be honest, I've found it to be really nice. I'm also happy that I've finally found a way to give Mozilla money
- I cannot search for tags.
- I cannot select tags in the Android client. Most especially, if I'm reading an article and want to cross-reference similarly-tagged articles, because that's what I'm interested in right now, I cannot.
- I cannot search by multiple tags simultaneously.
- I cannot readily edit tags in the Android client. For this and most other tag operations, the best thing to do is to pull up the Web client, manually enter the tag in the URL, then use the (relatively-recently-added) edit-tag function (usually to fix typos, etc.)
- The key does not function on Android. It is not possible to use backspace to edit errors when entering tags.
- Suggested tag order changed earlier this year from a highly-weighted most-recently-used to collate order. Meaning when tagging a set of similar articles, input/entryis far more cumbersome.
- "Flip mode" pagination is fragile and broken. I'd prefer a pagination far more like Einkbro using touch zones rather than gestures.
- I cannot create or export a list of articles to export to myself or share with co-workers, friends, etc., of interest. Pocket could be an excellent references generator. It is not.
- There's no print-to-PDF feature from the Android app. (Einkbro's print-to-Epub is vastly more useful in this regard, as I've posted recently to HN.)
Pocket has added a search-in-page feature. That only took years. Still, it's forward progress. But given that my gripes list (see up-thread) is five years old, that's pitifully little to show for.