It makes you devote some seconds to decide what you are going to do with each link, but it is necessary to save and organize correctly the stuff you really care about and throw away the rest.įinally, at the speed at which the internet moves, a huge part of the information gets obsolete really quickly. ![]() In GTD it is called clarifying or processing. There must be some kind of step between capturing the link and doing something with it (reading the article, watching the video, etc.) in which you are able to decide if the link is relevant or it isn’t, if you need to read it or watch it before a specific date, or if you just simply need to save it as reference material because it will probably be useful in some future. Anyone that practices GTD as their personal organisation system, knows that capturing stuff just for the sake of it makes no sense and leads to chaos. There is no other intention than to capture. Second of all, it doesn’t encourage you to take decisions. You’ve probably saved real gems that you’ll end up not reading, just because they are hidden under a sea of information. With that entering/exiting ratio, your list of things to read cannot do other than growing indefinitely. The problem is that deleting an article from your list takes a couple of minutes (you need to read it at least) while adding a new one takes less than a second. Every time I opened Pocket and saw the hundreds of articles I had unread, I didn’t even know where to start, and I got so overwhelmed that I abandoned after skimming a couple of articles. Yes, I know this seems like a positive feature beforehand, but when capturing things is that simple and it costs that little effort, why not capture everything, or at least almost everything? Capturing is that easy that you end up capturing almost anything, not just what you really care about. But let me tell you my personal experience and why I’ve decided to stop using Pocket (or any other similar app) to collect stuff that seems interesting.įirst of all, it is way too easy. ![]() There are other similar tools ( read-it-later), such as Instapaper or Stash, but I’ll talk about Pocket because it’s the one I’ve been using the last few years.Īll these tools are really well developed and offer a service that at first look, seems really useful. It integrates perfectly with all your social media, your email, your browsers and all your mobile devices, so that whenever you find something that seems interesting, wherever you are, and you don’t have enough time to go through it thoroughly, you can capture it with just a simple click to look it up later. ![]() It is an excellent service that allows you to save all kinds of links to read or watch later. Thing is, I want to tell you how Marco has made a magical machine for people who have decided to read.I suppose you know Pocket. (As you may already know, I’m a big Marco fan.) Because, if it’s not already obvious, Marco’s little app (and its associated services) enjoys a rabid fanbase of sundry paragraph cultists who are as eager as I am to spread the word and, yes, we do want you to join the Reading Nerd cult.īut, I also want to mark the occasion by adding a few thoughts on exactly what Instapaper has done, and continues to do, for me. Now, it’s fortunate and appropriate that you’ll be hearing this advice at length from a lot of people this week. I promise you’ll be treating yourself to a massive update to an already excellent product. This is fantastic news, and–as if you needed one more of Marco’s beta testers to say so–I do sincerely hope you’ll mark the occasion (and support his hard work) by purchasing the Instapaper iOS app(s). The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0 version of his Instapaper suite. Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone
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