What is your HN content consumption strategy?

1 pointsby questionmaniavor 5 Jahren2 comments

Maybe this sentence sounds familiar for you as well: "I have loads of bookmarked HN links."

Whenever I find time - this is my default productive procrastination action - I organize them even better or I start reading the content then reading all the comments. This process has few subsequent steps: - if new links, book references, etc. appear in the comments, I quickly skim them and, of course, add them to the bookmarks queue - I extract the main ideas from the article as well as all the info I want to retain from the comments and add them to a dedicated page in my personal Wiki (say it is an article about Productivity, I add all the new info in my Productivity wiki page if I have one, or create one if not - sometimes I create ANKI cards using the content, but not so often as creating good cards takes a lot of time (and this is actually the step I think has the most value out of the entire process)

Now the problem with all this is that is life consuming. I can't do it properly and scale, I have many interests, therefore many bookmarks that keep piling up. I run a mid-size software development studio, have a newborn and have been diagnosed with ADHD, so all these being very impactful in my schedule, leading only to more bookmarks and frustration. I can't convince myself to just delete all the bookmarks and unchain myself, although I thought about it few dozen times.

I am looking for your practical / mental / emotional approach on consuming HN as a source of inspiration for tampering with my own behavior.

Thank you!

2 comments

fleroviumvor 5 Jahren

Try Algolia's weekly and monthly summaries: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

Then HN is a source of information, not entertainment, and not a habit.

TIP: typo in the title, "consmuption"

simonblackvor 5 Jahren

Once a day, I scan the article titles for the last 24 hours. If a title looks interesting I will open that article and/or the discussion comments in a browser tab. Then if the body is interesting in the first few paragraphs I will read the whole article.

I have sometimes looked at summaries of 'the most popular articles', but have discarded them. Many of the articles that interest me would not be included in those.