Ask HN: How do you plan and track the books you want to read?
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Some interesting thoughts here:
Rational Reading: Thoughts On Prioritizing Books
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kmch6T2YscMyLFJD9/rational-r...
Rational Reading: Thoughts On Prioritizing Books
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kmch6T2YscMyLFJD9/rational-r...
It's FOMO. Delete/un-enroll/unsubscribe from all the current "want'to'be" list. Then just go by your day and pick up things you realise you should learn. Buy a physical book on that topic and read.
Uninstall all reading apps on your phone. Less is sanity.
Make notes. Upload into Anki. Write a blog on what you learned today.
Uninstall all reading apps on your phone. Less is sanity.
Make notes. Upload into Anki. Write a blog on what you learned today.
I use the app "Things 3" and set deadlines, works pretty Goode... only downside: Its only available in the Apple ecosystem and its not free.
Btw.: its also my preferred Task manager
Btw.: its also my preferred Task manager
by shelf and nightstand
it's nice to read from paper after looking at screens most of the day
it's nice to read from paper after looking at screens most of the day
Buy the books, have a big threatening pile of them glaring at you all the day; from time to time pick one out to read. This is the principle of the antilibrary which Nassim Taleb attributes to Umberto Eco
https://fs.blog/2013/06/the-antilibrary/
https://fs.blog/2013/06/the-antilibrary/
I think I have a problem. My want-to-read list on Goodreads currently has more than 2100 books. I probably have more than 50 online classes that I want to take.
I constantly find new things that I want to learn about. I have multiple lists on Goodreads with titles of "Urgent reads" and "The most urgent reads". Things get reprioritized so often that I don't actually end up reading or learning much.
I recently started building syllabuses around different topics for myself to put together relevant things together and then I try to force myself to focus on a single syllabus at a time.
I am experimenting with another system for books. I have a table of books, where when I get excited about a book, I upvote a book. Only after a book is upvoted more than 3 times, I download a sample of the book (if available on Kindle). Only after I read a book, I buy the book. This helped a little, but not enough. Now, I have 10 books that I started reading.
I am curious about how others approach this. What is your framework? How do you self-discipline? Are there any good tools?