How do people organize their reading? Perennially frustrated by this. I want one system that lets me trivially add books, papers, webpages, etc, re-organize very easily, search & filter. What works for you?
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
The trick is to organize/reorganize your ongoing and completed reading and staging. Not future. Aim to log not to schedule. Actual reading should be squeakiest wheel/instinctive choice.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/now-reading/
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Replying to @vgr
Very interesting, and consonant with many things I instinctively believe. How do you do the staging? It's not obvious from that page.
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What's the reasoning behind "Aim to log not schedule"? I'm inclined to agree with "don't schedule", but taken as a whole I'm not sure I understand.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
It’s like meta note-taking across reading. Your subconscious has a better sense of what you need to read, but your awareness needs some prosthetic help to optimally form the long-term memories the effort deserves
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Replying to @vgr
Do you have a single place where you store a big list of books/papers seen that might be worth reading someday? Essentially, an anti-library...
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @vgr
I maintain a big
@workflowy tree of articles & books organized by topic, so whenever I am in the mood to read something about, say, graphic design, I can find a list of books which I once thought would be good2 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
Nice tip. I'd probably prefer some sort of searchable tagging though, rather than topics. I am experimenting with using http://pinboard.in that way.
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I’ve never been happy with flat tagging! My brain just understands hierarchy much better. For a while I was convinced that everyone was just pretending to like tags because it was fashionable in the mid-2000s.
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