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Comment by PeterBarrett | Hacker News Reader

That'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.

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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.

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 :-)

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.

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!

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