[glaberficken]

+1 for Pocket

I have a Kobo e-reader (the Kobo has built in Pocket sync). So I just installed the Pocket extension for Chrome and on the icon to send any web article from the desktop to my e-reader. This saves me a lot of eye strain.

This has also done wonders for my productivity.

Before: 1) Computer hangs on some task (query running, software compiling, porgram installing, excel calculation etc)

2) Open Browser to scan my usual sources for interesting stuff to read.

3) Waste 15 minutes reading a few articles

After: 1) Computer hangs on some task (query running, software compiling, porgram installing, excel calculation etc)

2) Open Browser to scan my usual sources for interesting stuff to read.

3) Click to send them to Pocket for later reading on the e-reader

4) Get back to work

[sjs382]

That's the exact same workflow I use. Then I read later when things are truly slow, or after work or the weekends.

It has the downside of ballooning the number of items in your Pocket list, but if you ignore the "must read everything" impulse and skip/delete items, then it's fine. I usually hit "Pocket-Zero" a few times per week.

[glaberficken]

True! I've had that feeling myself when I started saving everything to pocket. So I created a few "self constraints":

I don't save articles that are "current news", this decreases the list significantly and takes the timing pressure off from achieving "pocket-zero".

I only save articles that interest me regardless of the timing.

I also use another "trick": for resources that reference other things I would like to read in the future (articles that mention authors or books) I send them to pocket > mark as favourite > archive. Then when I finish reading my current book of choice I go to the favourites archive and pick through what I want to read next.