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The Reading List Hoarding Problem

Md Abu Taher on March 20, 2019

Do you like to click that shiny [SAVE] button all the time? This post might be for you. Here is the current situation of reading list on dev.to, ...
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ItsASine (Kayla)

Heh, I'm over 900 articles in my saved right now, but it's entirely To Read. Anything actually save worthy I put in Pocket (used to keep a Gitlab snippet, but that was getting annoying to update). Pocket has maybe a few dozen things but from multiple sites, so it's not too much of a hoarding issue.

I do need to get around to reading all that stuff, though. After I finish grad school in May.

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Md Abu Taher

Good luck reading 900+ articles after May. :D

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Ivo Limmen

I am a digital hoarder as well. But I came to love it. I love my bookmarks collection. I only had a problem: it was devided in somany places. GitHub Stars, Google Bookmarks, Chrome Bookmarks, Firefox Bookmarks.. I eventually created my own opensource application just to manage it. github.com/IvoLimmen/mystart. I also use RRS a LOT. I have around 150 different sites I keep track of. Plus I also store a lot of article to Pocket.

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Md Abu Taher

That's so impressive!

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Stevie Oberg • Edited

I definitely have an issue with this, right now my reading list on here is 422 articles. Most of them I had a real interest in, opened in a new tab to read it then ran out of time or became overwhelmed by tabs so saved each one. Then I also have a whole bunch of bookmarks saved on Twitter... It's overwhelming to say the least. 😩

It's a real problem and I think this is one of the first articles I've seen that addresses it. I'll definitely be trying some of the solutions you mentioned!

Thank you for the quality post! (Also in all irony, I'm pretty sure I'm the one who saved it first 😂)

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Md Abu Taher

It's actually called Digital hoarding :D, and is underrated.

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Ashley Maria

I use Habitica to remind me to read/consume something I bookmarked daily. Of course, I also bookmark a ton for that one I read so I'm thinking of increasing my daily reading.

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Md Abu Taher

Can you share your experience with Habitica so far? :D

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Ashley Maria

How do you mean? I use it as a daily to-do and to remind me things I should be doing (for example, I have a checklist to follow on there for every single developer project). The motivation is not killing my character, haha.

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Md Abu Taher

That's not a hoarding problem. The problem is when you save for later but never take care of it.

The motivation is important.

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Ashley Maria

Not sure what you're talking about. I commented how I solved my problem, not saying the app was a problem.

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Md Abu Taher

Yes, I am saying you do not have a hoarding problem since you track this properly.

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Vicente Maldonado

There's also the "It's there so I have to bookmark it" hoarder.

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Md Abu Taher

Absolutely 🤦🏻‍♂️ ...

Clicking the Save button almost became a habit.

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Vicente Maldonado

Same here...