@jayeless I have a ‘later’ folder in my bookmarks where I park a lot of things. It’s quite useful as I use Firefox and it stays in sync across my devices. That lets me loop back when I’m ready, often when I’m winding down on the couch with my iPad.

@meandering Yeah, sometimes I've wondered if making greater use of bookmarks would help. Of course I already have a "Read Later" section in Raindrop.io for articles, and the problem is that I know full well that the "Read Later" section is where articles go to die 🤣 I pretty much never read something once I send it there, so because I'm CONVINCED that I DO want to read these articles, I keep the tab open instead…

@jayeless I throw everything interesting into Raindrop.io as unsorted, then once every few weeks I go in and review it. I end up keeping about a third of what I save.

@Cheri does Raindrop use share sheets? We use Amplenote to sort at source but it means copying a link, opening Amplenote, scrolling to the correct folder, and pasting.

@jayeless It seems to me that Read Later management is the new "Inbox Zero", well, fallacy, since few articles will every be read, as well as their email counterparts.

@jayeless I keep a loosely-defined maximum # of articles in raindrop, go through it now and then asking myself "Will I ever use/read this?" and deleting vigorously. Certainly I've never had more than 50 saved articles at any one time. When I go through the list, I almost always open up a couple to read or otherwise do something with. Those don't go back into storage.

@jayeless I'm trying a new method instead of just sending it to Pinboard where it also gets ignored. I use Drafts Quick Capture. All those links are untagged. I'm in the habit of tagging my notes in Drafts so that causes my semi-OCD to look at those links to review. Once every few days (a week or more), I put the links I still want in my Linking Park blog for finding later.

@Clonmeldigital Yes, on my iOS devices it uses share sheets.

@Cheri @JMaxB @pratik Thanks for chiming in - those are some good ideas! The other thing I sometimes do is just not read an article in my RSS reader, because eventually the "X unread" thing motivates me to go through and read some stuff or decide I don't care about some of the articles after all. I think I need some kind of similar process (like you guys have) for those articles that I didn't find through my RSS subscriptions. I do use Raindrop but I never remember to open it just to browse my "Read Later" collection - only to find a link of something I did read 😂 I need a regular reminder or something to go through the Read Laters.

@renevanbelzen Haha, I think that's a perfect comparison!