I don’t do resolutions but I do look back and think, “Was there anything I really wish I’d done for myself this past year, anything I wish I’d kept track of,” and every year it’s the same thing: I wish I kept better track of my reading. I always start out so great, I’ll log through January and February, an... eilloh.net

@hollie I write a couple of sentences in a blog post about each book I read. That's it. 😁

@hollie I just keep a document with a table listing the books I’ve read. Started in 1995.

@hollie I just keep a document with a table listing the books I’ve read. Started in 1995.

@Miraz That's so easy and I just need to find the spot! I think it will have to be digital unless I want to keep a little book with me at all times. Which is, honestly, tempting...

@hollie I realised after I wrote that I do in fact have two parts. I almost exclusively read books I buy for Kindle, so I note title, author, date of purchase and link to the page when I buy. I do that partly because Kindle makes it really hard to organise books on the device. When I finish a book I write a wee blog post, check it off in my main list as read and see what I'll read next.

@Miraz I like this system - the blog post is also something I’d really enjoy having later but in the moment I tend to forget. Am going to try and remember this! :)

@hollie My new blog post on this: miraz.me/2024/12/2...

@Miraz Oh hey, you use Omni Outliner! :D My husband Greg is the CTO of Omni! That's my favorite app of theirs, I use it for so many things. I should use it for books! :)

So your list is great, and this seems very doable for me, but I had to laugh that my brain saw the price column and began telling me, "No, no....we mustn't track how much money we spend on books....we don't need to know that number....." 😂

@hollie I've been using OO for sooooo long (maybe 20 years…). I keep all kinds of lists in it. One of my faves. 😁

To be fair I'm not really tracking the price — it's not in its own column with a total or anything. 😆 A quick glance at that screenshot will show though that I most commonly buy books: free, below $2, around $5, less than $10.

@Miraz I like your system. I find myself abandoning books occasionally when I lose interest. And then there are those that get suspended for quite some time, maybe years. N. K. Jemison's Broken Earth Trilogy was a victim of this. This might help to get back to those. OmniOutliner would be perfect for that.