Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

#1

Post by asim » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 12:26 PM UTC

Hey

I tend to look at 5-7 different websites, apps or notifications like 10 times a day. It's email, WhatsApp, hackernews, twitter, news, RSS feed, etc etc. It's sort of non stop. I was curious if anyone else ends up in this daily checkin hell or if you've found a way to summarise it?

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

#2

Post by bookofjoe » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 12:43 PM UTC

I look at the following sites once a day in this order:

Google News

Guardian

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

New York Times

Charlottesville Daily Progress

Core77

SwissMiss

NEW SAVANNA https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/

Kottke

reddit interesting as fuck

I tweet about 10x/day but never look at my tweetstream of peeps I follow: it's write-only for me

I post to HN about 10x/day and look at the front page 3-5 times/day

I post YouTube videos (Shorts, almost always featuring my cat) about 5-10/day but never watch others' YouTube videos

I post to my blog 3-5 times/day (since 2004)

I check email (and reply promptly) 2-3x/day

I have no RSS feed

I have 0 notifications on any/all devices

I average an hour/day reading a dead tree version of a book

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

#3

Post by TimCTRL » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:13 PM UTC

this site is the biggest culprit for me. My friends even ask "But what is that orange-grey site you are always on?"

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

#4

Post by tennisflyi » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:16 PM UTC

Hacker News and four other folders via RSS amongst many I just browse whenever.

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#5

Post by stiiv » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:20 PM UTC

Twice a day:

- HN for what's interesting - Reuters (domestic) for what's news - Email for what's personal

I very rarely post. I'm pretty happy with this info diet.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

#6

Post by subpixel » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:20 PM UTC

I pay for YouTube, have subscriptions to things I care about, and aggressively reject bad recommendations.

It’s not perfect but a scan of YouTube catches me up.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

#7

Post by turkeygizzard » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:21 PM UTC

I run GPT on a cronjob to summarize my twitter timeline for me. I'm sure it's not perfect, but it catches a lot

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

#8

Post by thex10 » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:24 PM UTC

Daily/several times a day: HN, Twitter, Reddit, text messages (various platforms)

Work days this includes Github, Slack, Asana.

Not daily but a few times a week: E-mail, RSS, Discord

Rarely: Voicemails

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

#9

Post by yawnxyz » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:26 PM UTC

HN, Twitter, sidebar.io, emergentmind.com or Ben's Bites. Trying to not spend too many hours catching up every day...

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#10

Post by littleabe » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:26 PM UTC

Via RSS, I visit this little aggregated news page: https://plaintruthpoems.com/rss/JDsNewsFeeds.php