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0 pointssjs38210y ago0 comments

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.

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glaberficken10y ago

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.

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