The only things I hoard are my ideas. Blog, LinkedIn posts, and newsletter ideas.
I haven't saved anything "for later" for a long time now – except in two cases:
- I know I'll read it in <7 days
- it's like a lifetime advice/blog/resource that I can pull up anytime and serves as a motivation, example, or direction.
For example, I'd like to learn to Go soon. I could go out there and probably spend the rest of my life-saving good Go resources. But that's a waste of time; I might never learn Go. So, instead of doing the (potentially) useless work upfront, I just wait until I get the time to learn Go and then look for resources. I'll find plenty, I'm sure.
Yes, as a friend put it, the most important resources are: "operational" (aka the information we'll use in the week) and "strategic" (the information needed for our life)
Yes clearly, we live in an age where there is enough information out there to not need to hoard insane list of resources, we just need credible sources and good ways to store and retrieve information
Nice issue! I have 3 ways to store data for different use cases:
1. Some sort of content management system for all my posts (newsletter and socials). I'll move them down the funnel as I gather resources and effectively write them.
2. A playlist of the various content that seemed special to me. I usually write a small note to say why I liked it. I frequently come back to it and if I see something in the list that I don't vividly remember, I delete it. Exceptional content should stick.
3. Last but not least, I have a chrome extension to anotate all the articles I read on the internet. So I have a rather big database of comments on various articles that I can refer to whenever I want to.
Sure it's Beanote. But it lacks a few features which makes me think of creating my own extension for that matter. I'd like to be able to take notes on any article on the internet, create a database of anotations that can be sorted, tagged, segmented, interconnected, exported to Notion, exported as csv, ...
I'd also love if I could share my annotations with an audience in the context of the article. Meaning that they would be able to open the article and see my annotations as they go through the article.
You see how well those "react" videos perform on YouTube? This would be a highbrow version of it, with online writing.
Wdyt? Am I going crazy or do you find at least some of these features useful?
The "sharing your annotation" with an audience I think is a reaaaaaally great feature
Substack has something a bit similar where you can "restack" something, but it's limited on content already present on substack and feels too much like "tweets"
But if we could have a "social media" where I could follow someone and see the articles they read, and the annotation/comments they made, I think it'd be really awesome
The only things I hoard are my ideas. Blog, LinkedIn posts, and newsletter ideas.
I haven't saved anything "for later" for a long time now – except in two cases:
- I know I'll read it in <7 days
- it's like a lifetime advice/blog/resource that I can pull up anytime and serves as a motivation, example, or direction.
For example, I'd like to learn to Go soon. I could go out there and probably spend the rest of my life-saving good Go resources. But that's a waste of time; I might never learn Go. So, instead of doing the (potentially) useless work upfront, I just wait until I get the time to learn Go and then look for resources. I'll find plenty, I'm sure.
Yes, as a friend put it, the most important resources are: "operational" (aka the information we'll use in the week) and "strategic" (the information needed for our life)
Nice writeup. Subscribed !
Thanks !
I agree that we shouldn't read everything, let alone store even less.
I see the effort to write something down as a filter.
Yes clearly, we live in an age where there is enough information out there to not need to hoard insane list of resources, we just need credible sources and good ways to store and retrieve information
Nice issue! I have 3 ways to store data for different use cases:
1. Some sort of content management system for all my posts (newsletter and socials). I'll move them down the funnel as I gather resources and effectively write them.
2. A playlist of the various content that seemed special to me. I usually write a small note to say why I liked it. I frequently come back to it and if I see something in the list that I don't vividly remember, I delete it. Exceptional content should stick.
3. Last but not least, I have a chrome extension to anotate all the articles I read on the internet. So I have a rather big database of comments on various articles that I can refer to whenever I want to.
Cheers, thanks for an interesting read!
Ohhh, really like the CMS approach for outputs. I think I'll maybe tend to that in the future, but for now I get by my countertop
Do you mind sharing the chrome extension ? That looks really cool actually
Sure it's Beanote. But it lacks a few features which makes me think of creating my own extension for that matter. I'd like to be able to take notes on any article on the internet, create a database of anotations that can be sorted, tagged, segmented, interconnected, exported to Notion, exported as csv, ...
I'd also love if I could share my annotations with an audience in the context of the article. Meaning that they would be able to open the article and see my annotations as they go through the article.
You see how well those "react" videos perform on YouTube? This would be a highbrow version of it, with online writing.
Wdyt? Am I going crazy or do you find at least some of these features useful?
The "sharing your annotation" with an audience I think is a reaaaaaally great feature
Substack has something a bit similar where you can "restack" something, but it's limited on content already present on substack and feels too much like "tweets"
But if we could have a "social media" where I could follow someone and see the articles they read, and the annotation/comments they made, I think it'd be really awesome