Question regarding this: notes.andymatuschak.org/A_reading_inbo – "zero-friction to view the reading corresponding to an inbox item" – What does "Reading" mean here? The article, website, etc itself? Isn't that pretty frictionless with services like Instapaper?
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Yes, Instapaper makes that reasonably frictionless for web pages. Long PDFs are somewhat harder to get right. EPUBs / books are quite painful. To your question on inbox overflow:
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One related thing I've noticed: because products like Instapaper make it much easier to contend with web pages than other media forms, that pushes me to read more web pages. But the outside view is that my priorities should generally be books > PDFs > web pages. Bad inversion.
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Apart from the fact that e-readers should have evolved much more, that I want apps for Kindle etc, reading books on Kindle and importing highlights is not too bad.
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I truly wish I felt the same way! The Kindle makes me a much worse reader, primarily due to notes.andymatuschak.org/Poor_performan and notes.andymatuschak.org/Maintaining_mu.
But even if it didn't, there's no way to make a heterogenous reading inbox which combines Kindle books, web pages, etc. :/
I know what you mean about lack of universal inbox. For me that's Roam with progressive summarization, but still a lot of manual work. I think the people have some thoughts about becoming the ultimate API for this.
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Love your idea of spaced everything. Similar to the supermemo guy's concept of incremental reading, incremental learning.