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Inbox Zero Using Getpocket

by cyneox on 9/1/21, 6:31 PM with 17 comments

  • by bertman on 9/3/21, 12:21 PM

    I'm always in awe of articles like this one where people describe their workflow with the help of mindmaps, flow charts, class diagrams etc. and where they detail meticilous (self-written) extensions or scripts for categorization, readability etc. I usually feel pretty bad after reading them because they make me realise that I'm a lazy piece of shit who just bookmarks stuff and never reads any of it afterwards.

  • by input_sh on 9/3/21, 12:30 PM

    Nice! I'm far past the point where I have any chance of ever clearing up my-list without just re-creating my account and starting from scratch. Last time I did some rough calculations, I've ended up with months worth of non-stop reading. Glad to know other people are doing better!

    As for Pocket itself, I cannot imagine my life without it. I pay for the premium purely to support it (I don't really use any of the premium features). But I wish I could extend it! There's all sorts of little things that I would've loved to have, but even with the recently-improved update schedule I'm not getting my hopes up.

  • by yboris on 9/3/21, 2:20 PM

    Side comment: my math professor in college (a logician Simon Thomas) shared a math puzzle with us about a hydra that grows copies of her heads when cut off according to some math rule. The process made it seem like there would be no way to ever kill the hydra, but our professor said there was a proof that you could, just by working through one head at a time (even randomly).

    Many years later, while drowning in links (reading one article made me bookmark several more), this story gave me hope that I could reach inbox zero just by reading, undaunted by the growing backlog.

    https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/undergrad/Activities/Lectures...

    My personal strategy is to add things to Pocket or bookmarks, and then, if a year later I'm still interested in reading it, I'll read it.

  • by cyberge99 on 9/3/21, 2:21 PM

    I was would add pinboard to that list.

    I augment pocket with buku, and I created aliases in bash for quick searches from the cli. A simple cmd-click on the url in iTerm and the url opens.

    I’m still trying to get to that perfect information management utopia but at some point I may make a post about what works for me.

  • by lewisjoe on 9/3/21, 2:56 PM

    I use a slightly different strategy. I made https://closetab.email so that a weekly digest of my bookmarks are delivered to my inbox, every monday.