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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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.
Good luck reading 900+ articles after May. :D
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.
That's so impressive!
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 😂)
It's actually called Digital hoarding :D, and is underrated.
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.
Can you share your experience with Habitica so far? :D
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.
That's not a hoarding problem. The problem is when you save for later but never take care of it.
The motivation is important.
Not sure what you're talking about. I commented how I solved my problem, not saying the app was a problem.
Yes, I am saying you do not have a hoarding problem since you track this properly.
There's also the "It's there so I have to bookmark it" hoarder.
Absolutely 🤦🏻♂️ ...
Clicking the Save button almost became a habit.
Same here...