Clearing your Instapaper queue is very easy:
1. Always sort by “oldest saved”
2. Always start with the oldest thing saved
3. Always delete anything that’s you’ve skipped 3 times
Your queue will be cleared in no time
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This feels very wrong to me. Clearing your queue should never be an end in itself. I’d go with Chesterton’s Fence queue management: only delete when you know why you put it there in the first place and can explain why the original subconscious motive was misguided.
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That already requires too much effort though. I think of it as demotion followed by eventual deletion. Makes deleting the default unless you can think of the rationale for saving
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I’m hoard-and-search mostly, unless it’s something for which searching online is easier due to others commonly touching it, in which case I never save in the first place
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I think Regular Archival instead of Deletion is the better approach. So you can still search the archive for keywords of past saved content.
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Noise reduction is important as too much irrelevant content leads to less using of the tool.
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