Do you know the feeling when you bookmark articles hoping to be reading them on a peaceful Sunday morning along with a cup of hot black filter coffee (or instant if you are Greek like myself :p)?
And then, this Sunday morning comes, but it is not peaceful because you have to do all this kind of stuff that arose and you have to delegate reading… again. Now if this happens for some weeks in a row you come up with so many bookmarks that turn the beautiful scene I described before to a nightmare where you, caged in front of your screen, seek to regain control of your Read & Review material (speaking in GTD terms).
That sort of thing happened to me lately and I ended up with very many articles waiting for me to read them. Once the volume exceeded my average peaceful Sunday morning reading time threshold (PSMRTT), Ι decided to attempt achieving balance again by tossing both outdated articles and those of little importance (for me!).
Although that made things better, still, PSMRTT limit was not reached. That led me to the next logical step. To toss more of these bookmarks, an unpleasant procedure if we take under consideration that I spent time to spot and store these bookmarks (identifying the «good» stuff is the hard part). In the end I came up with two collections of bookmarks:
- Those I was dieing to read
- Those I would love to read but this is definitely not going happen sometime soon
The dilemma I am facing now is whether to delete the second category or keep it as a future Read & Review cellar. To be honest with you neither satisfies me so I decided to do something else. I will attach the articles of the second collection in the end of this article (in hyperlinked titles format). This way, public will benefit from my harvesting procedure (hopefully no outdated articles are included) and I will keep these bookmarks in one place, available for future reading (given the time). «I shall name this procedure ‘krap’ harvesting and ‘krap’ harvesting will be called from now on every time it occurs».
The Harvest
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