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What is your HN content consumption strategy?

1 pointsby questionmaniaover 3 years ago
Maybe this sentence sounds familiar for you as well: &quot;I have loads of bookmarked HN links.&quot;<p>Whenever I find time - this is my default productive procrastination action - I organize them even better or I start reading the content then reading all the comments. This process has few subsequent steps: - if new links, book references, etc. appear in the comments, I quickly skim them and, of course, add them to the bookmarks queue - I extract the main ideas from the article as well as all the info I want to retain from the comments and add them to a dedicated page in my personal Wiki (say it is an article about Productivity, I add all the new info in my Productivity wiki page if I have one, or create one if not - sometimes I create ANKI cards using the content, but not so often as creating good cards takes a lot of time (and this is actually the step I think has the most value out of the entire process)<p>Now the problem with all this is that is life consuming. I can&#x27;t do it properly and scale, I have many interests, therefore many bookmarks that keep piling up. I run a mid-size software development studio, have a newborn and have been diagnosed with ADHD, so all these being very impactful in my schedule, leading only to more bookmarks and frustration. I can&#x27;t convince myself to just delete all the bookmarks and unchain myself, although I thought about it few dozen times.<p>I am looking for your practical &#x2F; mental &#x2F; emotional approach on consuming HN as a source of inspiration for tampering with my own behavior.<p>Thank you!

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fleroviumover 3 years ago
Try Algolia&#x27;s weekly and monthly summaries: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=pastWeek&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;type=story" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=pastWeek&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=fal...</a><p>Then HN is a source of information, not entertainment, and not a habit.<p>TIP: typo in the title, &quot;consmuption&quot;
simonblackover 3 years ago
Once a day, I scan the article titles for the last 24 hours. If a title looks interesting I will open that article and&#x2F;or the discussion comments in a browser tab. Then if the body is interesting in the first few paragraphs I will read the whole article.<p>I have sometimes looked at summaries of &#x27;the most popular articles&#x27;, but have discarded them. Many of the articles that interest me would not be included in those.