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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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.
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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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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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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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No it’s all over the place. I might make temporary sub lists or piles relevant to a project or shelve subsets for easy finding, that’s all
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what is your task positive and task negative "ratio" or "state-transition" like when you read or have needs to read?


