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Re:Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters by prawn on Sunday February 10, 2019 @07:56AM (#19127599)
I have a To Read folder in my bookmarks bar. I'd argue that it's useful even though I almost never read anything placed in there: it helps me by giving me the opportunity to bookmark and close a single tab and edge a tiny bit closer to internal peace.
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Re:Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters by shortcord on Sunday February 10, 2019 @09:19AM (#19127845)
I have the same perspective.

Last night I had probably 20 tabs open on Reddit that I wanted to read. Didn’t have the time to look through them all so I bookmarked them in Pinboard, closed the tab, and moved on with my life.

Will I ever read them? Probably not, but it’s nice knowing they’re not lost in my internet history and that I could.

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Re:Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters by Toorkit on Sunday February 10, 2019 @11:43AM (#19128469)
I solve this by just keep the tabs open.

I use tree-style tabs, so anything interesting gets stuck in a tree that I can collapse. It might stay there for a month, maybe more.

Eventually I'll either find the time to read/watch/whatever, or realize it doesn't interest me anymore.

Either way, after a while that tree gets closed and the cycle starts over.

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Re:Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters by ghaff on Sunday February 10, 2019 @12:31PM (#19128786)
Read Later saving to Instapaper is one of the few things of that type that I actually get around to reading much of the time. I use it judiciously for long reads that I genuinely want to do but can't give the 20 minutes or whatever it deserves right now. Then they're synced to my iPad and make good reads while I'm traveling.
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