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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What would be a less painful user experience for EPUBs / books? Making their display in lists and other pages specific to the metadata of books?
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EPUB reader UX is an unacceptable shitshow in a thousand ways, but very tactically here: I can click a table cell in Instapaper and instantly see the article. I can't click a table cell corresponding to an EPUB and instantly see that book, opened to the page where I left off.
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Thanks! Definitely seeing more and more what's wrong with all those tools now and what a massive opportunity there is for improvement.