Aaron Hockley

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How I Read on the Internet Posted: 08 Nov 2014 07:30 AM PST Yesterday Eddie Smith wrote that Read Later is dead and I figured now would be a fantastic time to post some related thoughts about how I read on the internet[1]. Incoming: RSS, Twitter, Chat, etc Online information comes from various sources. I subscribe to hundreds of feeds in NewsBlur. I follow a bunch of people on various social media platforms. Friends send me links via email or IM or Slack or other private messages. If the item is short and I have a moment, I read it then… it’s like a reading adaptation of the 2-minute “Process it now” mantra from Getting Things Done. I read pretty quickly, so I can read many (most) things I come across on the spot. Reading Later If not, it gets sent to Instapaper. I have a recurring weekly task in OmniFocus to review my Instapaper queue, but in reality I do it far more often… Instapaper tends to be my bedtime reading. After Reading Once I’ve read something: If it was rather unremarkable it’ll simply get archived in Instapaper. If I found it interesting, I’ll save it to Pinboard for reference. I might also choose to share it out to Twitter. If it leads to a followup task, it gets sent to OmniFocus. By deferring any sort of longish reading to Instapaper, I can rapidly move through incoming streams, then shift into reading mode later. This is how I read. It probably isn’t how you read. If you read in some other way and it works for you, that’s fantastic. I’m okay with that.  ↩ The post How I Read on the Internet appeared first on Aaron B. Hockley.

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