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I built something to help with this actually: https://omreader.co

You can read blogs (RSS feeds) and email newsletters on your Kindle. It allows you to wake up and read long form content without needing your phone. I personally find that whenever I have my phone on me I almost always end up getting distracted so my solution is to just not have my phone anywhere near me when I wake up in the morning (or throughout the parts of the day where I'm trying to be productive).

I just launched it a few weeks ago. Any feedback would be great.

Nassim Taleb's "Lindy Effect" I think is an interesting take on how to mediate between these two modes. The general idea is that the older a (still followed) tradition is the more likely it is to contain some eternal truths that should be respected even if you yourself can't understand them directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Perfect, thank you. This is really good feedback. I am still very much in the early stages of figuring out a pricing model.

Thanks! That looks really nice. Yeah there's a surprising amount of challenges in creating a service like this that targets the Kindle. If you end up signing up, let me know and I'll add some some special access flags to your account.

Yeah you've touched upon one of the key value adds I think. I've put a lot of work into trying to support as many sites as possible. There are multiple processing stages and fallback paths that are used to ensure that the article is parsed correctly. It's an ongoing challenge but it seems viable as it stands currently. If you run into any issues please let me know. I'm relatively quick at improving the support for any site when I become aware of a potential for improvement.

That's very kind of you. Thank you!

Thanks! Yeah I've used that extension. If anyone's curious here's the official Amazon one:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for...

Ha no worries. I've tried to find a good balance with the free tier. It's actually a bit more generous than what the copy on the marketing site says so I'll go ahead and update that today. Would love to hear any feedback that you have.

Awesome! Yeah I tested this out on my mom's old kindle (one with a keyboard) and it renders really well. Not the same as how it looks on the newer Kindles but they still have special support for the newspaper format on the old Kindles and it looks great.

Here are some things that have worked for me:

1. Keep your phone on silent (or shut off) in a different room than your office (or wherever you're trying to work)

2. Install an app like Refine on your phone and block all social media and sites that you open up frequently (HN would possibly be an example)

3. Keep your phone in a different room before going to sleep.

4. If you like listening to audiobooks, consider getting an Amazon Echo. I like to listen to audiobooks before falling asleep and with the Echo you can set a sleep timer and then play an audiobook and it will stop playing after the sleep timer expires.

5. On your laptop (assuming you use Mac or Linux) add social media and other frequently visited non-productivity related sites to your /etc/hosts file.

Personally I try to avoid drugs for these kinds of things. In my view it's a matter of self improvement and self-discipline which are things that can be developed with effort.

I built this service to help deal with this problem: https://omreader.co

It allows you to read blogs (RSS feeds) and email newsletters on your Kindle. I originally started working on this to help me read financial news without needing my phone which I find to be a really distracting environment. I would find myself mindlessly opening up and scrolling through reddit or HN and in my experience, repeatedly doing that has a tendency to destroy ones ability to concentrate. It's super nice to be able to wake up without your phone near you and still be able to read long form content.

I just launched it out of beta but any feedback would be great.

Edit: HN is currently hugging the database to death. The site is still working fine but I apologize for any slowness. I will upgrade the database tonight.

> The phone delivers important news which must be checked at least once a day

I think you've nailed the reason why it's very difficult to completely cut your phone out of your life in terms of it being something you depend on in your routine. It's relatively easy to block social media and uninstall apps like Instagram but for me this was the use case that I hadn't been able to find a substitute for.

I build this service to deal with this specific problem, essentially allowing you to have news and other kinds of content (like blog posts) delivered to your Kindle to read in a newspaper format:

https://omreader.co

We're still in beta and I would love any feedback from HN readers. If you have any questions or feedback you can email me at the email in my bio.

I have found from my own experience that you need to shut your phone off and keep it off. It helps to keep it in a different room, especially at night before you go to sleep.

We're working on a service that allows you to do this while still being able to read the blogs and newsletters you like. I built this specifically to deal with this problem:

https://omreader.co

We're still in beta so it's free to use. I would love the feedback from any HN reader. You can email me at the email in my bio if you have any questions or feedback.

If anyone has a Kindle and is willing to help us beta test a new RSS/newsletter reading service for the Kindle please email me at the email address in my bio. I would love to get your feedback.