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Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#32I read what I have time for at the moment and that’s it. I accept that I won’t ever be able to read or even do all the things I want in life and just take it moment by moment. If something seems important than I use my built in memory to remember it later. If it’s very important then I make time for it now.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#33I open them in a separate tab, then occasionally think about reading some of my tabs when I have time in the future. Then occasionally my browser crashes such that it loses the open tabs, thus cleaning up. And thus I start anew.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#34I've tried many others and always end up back at email to name+toread@domain.tld. After I read it and if I want to keep it for reference, I tag and archive it, otherwise just archive it. I'd like to move from tags to a personal knowledge database with full text search, but I haven't been sufficiently motivated to set it up.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#35I use a simple TXT file formatted as YAML that is a part of my organization system: https://github.com/galfarragem/superfolder
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#36New tabs in browser, and the "onetab" add-in to keep lists of links.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#37It depends. For a lot of content on HN, I simply save to Pinboard with a tag. Most of that never gets read, but when I happen to need to work on something that uses, say, a graph database, I’ll review my “database” tag bookmarks to see if there’s anything useful there.
If I actually intend to read the content of the link and not just potentially return to it later if needed, I’ll save to Instapaper, which is configured to automatically create a Kindle-formatted digest of all the links and send it directly to my Kindle on Friday mornings. It’s like a mini-magazine of only articles I care about.
Some other commenters have suggested other “Send to Kindle” options, but I prefer this because those create a single Kindle item per article, while Instapaper’s digests compile a whole weeks worth (or more, the length of time is configurable) of content into a single Kindle “book”.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#38Google Keep browser extension.
I store my "jotted notes" of all kinds in Keep, and one of my labels is "toread", while the one for videos is "towatch". Keep works for me since it's cloud-based, free, and works across iOS and Android.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#39I use the Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
Here is a screenshot of my current HN reading list: https://i.imgur.com/KvbucE2.png
It is similar to Tree Style Tabs for Firefox but with some key differences:
- It sits in a separate window and shows the tree for your entire current session. Each Chrome window is a child of the root node.
- It supports indentation via Tab or Shift-Tab and has several useful keyboard shortcuts
- Rearranging the tabs with the mouse is very precise. Indentation can also be controlled this way.
- It uploads the entire tree to Google Drive periodically and manually. This way I can move my tab tree between computers with a simple drag and drop.
- It can unload tabs or entire sub-trees (the green X icon in the screenshot). This makes extensions like The Great Suspender obsolete and I can still keep my gigantic tree hierarchy without eating all my RAM.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#40I use a simple TXT file formatted as YAML that is a part of my organization system: https://github.com/galfarragem/superfolder
remind me of this http://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/