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I'm not answering your question directly, but instead I am posting my experience that it might help you. Feel free to ignore. I've stopped collecting my links on Instapaper as I hardly find time to read through all the links I save and never found a single instance where I went back to cherish that stuff(at least in the 3 month period that I archived). Instead, I stopped worrying, and started to enjoy the content: read it and forget it and your brain will take the responsibility to spring it up later in the hour of need. Here's the four step process I'm currently following.
1. If the post is an experience, well, I read it as-is, comment if I may, form my opinion and forget about it peacefully.
2. If the post contains some detailed how-to's that are hard to remember, I spool it.
3. If the post contains links(generally to tools and open source code) that I might need to find later, I tweet it.
4. If the post is really awesome, I blog about it or add to my to-blog list(another way of bookmarking, time taking, but the impression lasts for a longer time) I now have 18 articles spooled in the last 2 months that I clearly remember why I bookmarked each of them as opposed to several hundreds on Instapaper.(I'm not comparing Spool and Instapaper, I happened to pick Instapaper first and used Spool later when I changed my tactic). Also, I don't try to bookmark everything I find amusing, only those I might need later. Now, I see myself reading and taking more pleasure compared to when I was worrying about bookmarking most of the things I read. Only time will make selection better! |