| While I don't have anywhere near 10,000, I have accumulated 800 bookmarks over the years. If you're anything like me, then your problem isn't so much that you're a hoarder. It's that your input / output is extremely imbalanced. You have this feeling of "man, but that article is probably really good...I don't want to miss out", but then you never read it in the end because you put it on the back burner. Lately (for the past couple of months) I give myself about a day to read the content I bookmark. If I "can't make the time" for it, then it must not be important enough so it gets deleted. This input / output imbalance is probably due to not taking enough action. If you're working on XYZ project, and you find a blog post that relates to it, then it's a no brainer to read the blog post as soon as possible so you can apply what you learn. If you have nothing to output, then you have little reason to read the things you bookmark. Tech moves too fast to bookmark everything. The only time I would really bookmark a tech post for later is when the content tackles a really hard problem, or it's timeless advice. Btw I use Google Keep to organize bookmarks and it helps a lot because you can tag and archive them. It's very helpful for making sense out of a large number of bookmarks, and lets you archive them after reading them, so you don't lose the URL in the end. Also, in your case I wouldn't spend time organizing your bookmarks. That is just busy work preventing you from getting real stuff done. So, the habit change is to ask yourself why you're bookmarking so much. Once you can identify the problem, then the solution is usually pretty easy. Hey, what do you know, life is almost like programming! |