Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
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Re: Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
#2Hello HN. Author of https://closetab.email here!
I made this software to solve my "tabdemic" problem. I saw myself ending up with 50+ open tabs in my browser regularly - full of browser tabs I want to read later.
This extension helps me to close those tabs with confidence without sending them to the abyss of bookmarks.
This is how it works:
#1 Bookmark a tab using the extension, with an optional timeout and relevant tags.
#2 Close the tab with confidence. Every monday you'll receive an email digest of links you've been meaning to read.
Re: Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
#3Hello HN. Author of https://closetab.email here! I made this software to solve my "tabdemic" problem. I saw myself ending up with 50+ open tabs in my browser regularly - full of browser tabs I want to read later. This extension helps me to close those tabs with confidence without sending them to the abyss of bookmarks. This is how it works: #1 Bookmark a tab using the extension, with an optional timeout and relevant…
I've published the source code if you'd like to contribute/host on your own: https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater
Re: Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
#4That's a nice idea. My current approach is to close everything off and just accept that if I haven't read it within a couple of days I'm never going to and it's not actually that important! Having articles pop up in my emails sounds like a good approach.
Re: Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
#5That's a nice idea. My current approach is to close everything off and just accept that if I haven't read it within a couple of days I'm never going to and it's not actually that important! Having articles pop up in my emails sounds like a good approach.
Mine is to put links in Notion with a description and some tags and then forget forever about it.
Re: Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
#6That's a nice idea. My current approach is to close everything off and just accept that if I haven't read it within a couple of days I'm never going to and it's not actually that important! Having articles pop up in my emails sounds like a good approach.
Sometimes I write the title down on a sticky note and put it on my desk before closing the tab. Then, a week later, I don't feel so bad about throwing it away.
For things that I actually do intend to read later but just don't have time now, pasting the title/author/url into a zettelkasten entry helps me with tab anxiety. If I assign a few tags, I might actually read it later!
Re: Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
#7Nice. I've been using Pocket https://getpocket.com/ for a long while
Re: Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
#8That's a nice idea. My current approach is to close everything off and just accept that if I haven't read it within a couple of days I'm never going to and it's not actually that important! Having articles pop up in my emails sounds like a good approach.
Mine is to put links in Notion with a description and some tags and then forget forever about it.
I also do that but with pure markdown notes.
Re: Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
#9That's a nice idea. My current approach is to close everything off and just accept that if I haven't read it within a couple of days I'm never going to and it's not actually that important! Having articles pop up in my emails sounds like a good approach.
I keep notes in Evernote (now in Joplin) about certain topics that interest me, and then when I have one of these "interesting later" articles, I put it in there, usually structured by subtopics etc. Kind of like a manual version of Delicious, but also a bit better structured. When I have a minute for the topic and can wrap my head around it, I have the articles ready for checking out.
Re: Show HN: I made an app to buffer and complete my "read later" list
#10That's a nice idea. My current approach is to close everything off and just accept that if I haven't read it within a couple of days I'm never going to and it's not actually that important! Having articles pop up in my emails sounds like a good approach.
I follow your approach too. I think of the "interesting" tabs I open, I maybe visit 50% in the end.
To be honest, the other 50% that I open, never read and then close at the end of the day? Never really missed something truly important, and not reading did not negatively impact my life...
I try to accept that there are just 24 hours in a day, and every second more than 24 hour of interesting content is created, so there's no way to digest it all. Most days, it's working :-)