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Are there any effective self-hosted applications to turn 'read it later' into 'read it now'? (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I’m dyslexic and have ADHD while studying and working in mental health. I’ll do self directive research at work to better myself when I have a little ‘ah ha!’ moment, it’s still scattered but naturally I’m interested. While the stuff for study gets sidelined into a doom pile of saved articles and overwhelm. My "to-read" list would just keep growing, and the articles I saved in "read-it-later" apps would often end up being "never-read". 

So I am curious to ask, do you guys use any read-it-later apps? Ever run into any issues while using them?

For me, I use pocket but I quickly fall behind - way more in than out. That’s primarily down to me and my efforts but the application itself does nothing to assist me.

If you've had the same struggle, how did you tackle it? Or could you recommend some tools that might help?

Interested in everyone’s thoughts.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The read-it-never phenomenon is due to 1) lack of priority, and 2) loss of interest. I tackle this by setting aside 30-60 minutes a day to listen to or read something of interest. Everything is in a bookmarks folder and each session starts by adjusting the order of the bookmarks into priority including removing items that I've lost interest in. Then I spend the rest of the time reading from the top of the list down.

It's daunting if you have 2,000 itmes in your doom pile, but in a list that big 90% of it should be trashed. To make it more manageable, go through 10% of it each day. It's sub-optimal, but a completely acceptable way to address it and more optimal than never reading any of it.