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Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#42If it's something I want to read, I usually just use Safari's Add to Reading List function. Then it syncs to the reading list on all of my Apple devices and computers.
If it's something I've just read and want to save, I save the page as a PDF in iBooks and it also syncs to all of my devices and computers.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#43Inoreader is the absolute best for me, although I usually use it for discovery.
I just have over 200 rss feeds, mostly from blogs, but from Twitter and Facebook too, and then tag and star everything I may be interested in.
They also have this chrome extension for adding websites from the web, but I haven't found myself using it much.
It has a pretty good search functionality, but I think you do have to pay for some of it.
It also has a lot of automation tools like "auto send to one note" sort of stuff, integration with ifttt, among others.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#44For me, it's a hopeless endeavor to keep track of stuff I want to read. So, if ever want to read something, I do read it right there, right then, or just hope that I'll remember that I bookmarked it somewhere and will be able to get to it at some point in the future when I have to. Depending on the device/site I am on, I do one of the following, and then end up never really coming back to it.
- bookmark the page
- add to "read later" on Chrome
- add to "reading list" on Safari
- clip to Evernote
- click "favorite" on HN
- (edit) (forgot to add) OneTab Chrome extension to save dozens of open tabs
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#45I've stopped trying to remember things to consume. So no lists. To echo others here, read it now, or if you forget about it, it wasn't worth reading probably.
Where I think it's important to flip this is "keep track of all the things you want to produce" instead. All the article ideas, product ideas.
I keep a list now of hundreds of things I want to write or vlog about. I'm constantly surprised by how many good ideas I forget because I forgot to write them down. "What was that great anecdote I wanted to share?"
And it's this insanely important list now. When I'm in the inevitable i-couldnt-be-creative-to-save-my-life state, there's this giant list of things I came up with when I was in a much more creative mood.
Saving a list of all those threads has been the only way I could have kept up making a new video every single day for so many stretches. It's maximized my creativity.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#46On Firefox I use great extension Totally not Panorama [0] which gives old tab-groups-like feature. This gives me ability to group tabs around interests. It's like multiple workspaces in a desktop environment.
However most of the time I just open a lot of tabs. First I read some low-effort click-bait that I do not deeply care about. Then I read something that I'm actually interested in, but it's somewhere in the middle. Then I'm left with articles of perceived high-quality or high interest. I will read a few of them within a week or so. The rest will remain for even a couple of weeks. After a while I will either read them or just close the tab when I finally see that I don't care much about it. Also I read too many comments on HN.
I'm not proud of this.
One should always remember Strugeon's law [1] - "ninety percent of everything is crap". It may be worth it more to aim higher or just go for a walk than read crap.
While I'm at it, I was thinking about a title filter. I would like to filter out all content titled "N things you should know" or "N apps for something" entirely. Also personally probably all content about corporate machinations - be it Google or Apple.
Another thing would be from around the top of my too long todo list. An HTML-only browser that would index and possibly store all retrieved text - enabling full-text search through whole local archive. Then I would not worry about loosing some potentially relevant information. Bonus for it being HTML-only - no more position:fixed or sticky bars at the top, no GDPR or cookie fluff and no more JS tracking or otherwise.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/basic-panoram...
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#47I recently started using https://www.emailthis.me/
It's like Pocket but the articles are cleaned and stored in your email inbox instead. I was a big fan of RSS feeds but recently stopped using any RSS services at all since the signal to noise ratio was generally too high.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#48Contrarian thought here - but I stopped saving things. I was a very heavy user of pocket, pinboard, delicious et al for web articles. For academic papers I use Mendeley. I now make an active effort to read the article as I discover it - the point being (for me) that if I'm in the process of "discovering" an article, I'm not "working" on anything else that leads me to have to save it for later -- I'm in the zone, read…
As my list of "articles to read" grew, I felt guilt and a touch of anxiety because it was yet another thing I didn't have enough time to do. Then, when I finally made the time to read some articles off the list, I was usually disappointed... Here was this thing weighing on my mind for months, and now that I read it I see it's not that useful. Now I read things on an "as needed" basis: I find and read articles as I ne…
I know the anxiety you're referring to. I eventually started aggressively pruning my to-read list every once in a while, deleting articles that looked appealing when I came across them and impulsively hit "read later" but on more sober inspection no longer seemed worth the effort. No more anxiety, and this way what I end up reading tends to be worth it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#49Email - searchable, taggable, no app needed per se, cross-device.
Agree with read now or never, but sometimes I still want to save it for weekend read.
To actually read something I found printing it out very helpful - you won't forget and can highlight stuff.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#50I just started using Mix.com, they have a mobile, chrome, and firefox extension that lets you save from around the web. It lets you organize the articles you want to save into collections you can customize. Also it seems if I add articles about a certain topic it will give me more recommendations. You can save any link, including tweets. I do not believe it works with Facebook posts.