The usage data disagrees (see his open and click-through rates).
> If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.
You might be right. But there's also the use case of it being just a timehop for your bookmarks vs. a read your unreads tool.
On this front -- I hate email. I'm tempted to do a pull request that creates todoist tasks for you each day. If you don't complete them it puts them back into the pool for a future date -- the last thing I need is my todo list guilt tripping me :p.
And those emails will either be conveniently ignored or will land in spam folders after a while.
If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.