<story><title>Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket</title><url>https://www.oliverburkeman.com/river</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcme</author><text>Yes. Most information is truly worthless.</text></item><item><author>faeyanpiraat</author><text>I actually solved this without an app. I realized I had around 10k &amp;quot;read later&amp;quot; items in my bookmarks folder in Chrome, and I simply deleted all of them.</text></item><item><author>bueno</author><text>I’m the developer of an iOS and iPadOS app that I think is relevant here. My app Ephemera is a simple read-later application that places expiration dates on every link you add. If you don’t read the article in time, it disappears forever.&lt;p&gt;The app isn’t for everyone, but if you are buried under the torrent of information you “think” you should read, I have found that Ephemera helps me focus and actually read more.&lt;p&gt;You can find the app here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deadpan.io&amp;#x2F;ephemera&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deadpan.io&amp;#x2F;ephemera&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’d love for Hacker News to check it out!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s more that you always have a bunch of other things competing for your attention on the internet so there&amp;#x27;s no incentive to read things you once wanted to read.&lt;p&gt;Even an article you just opened in a tab competes with scavenging for more info on HN&amp;#x2F;Reddit&amp;#x2F;Twitter. I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s evidence that the articles are just worthless.&lt;p&gt;Once, when the internet was out for a few days, I realized that iOS saves your reading list items for offline reading and I was glad to have it. All sorts of interesting articles that I curated. I now work through the reading queue on flights.</text></comment>
<story><title>Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket</title><url>https://www.oliverburkeman.com/river</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcme</author><text>Yes. Most information is truly worthless.</text></item><item><author>faeyanpiraat</author><text>I actually solved this without an app. I realized I had around 10k &amp;quot;read later&amp;quot; items in my bookmarks folder in Chrome, and I simply deleted all of them.</text></item><item><author>bueno</author><text>I’m the developer of an iOS and iPadOS app that I think is relevant here. My app Ephemera is a simple read-later application that places expiration dates on every link you add. If you don’t read the article in time, it disappears forever.&lt;p&gt;The app isn’t for everyone, but if you are buried under the torrent of information you “think” you should read, I have found that Ephemera helps me focus and actually read more.&lt;p&gt;You can find the app here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deadpan.io&amp;#x2F;ephemera&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;deadpan.io&amp;#x2F;ephemera&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’d love for Hacker News to check it out!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fruit2020</author><text>Not worthless, but too much. Life is short, you need focus</text></comment>