Productive Life
How I Use My Read-Later App
I have been a voracious reader my whole life. I was the kid who fell asleep with a flashlight under the covers with my latest book. It took me a little bit to get on the ebook bandwagon, but once I did, I went HARD for ebooks. I found I read EVEN MORE when I read digitally.
As digital reading tools developed, I also tried to keep up. It took me a little bit to get on board with ebooks, but once I got it, I found I was reading so much more! I could easily pull up a book on my smartphone and get a few more pages in while waiting in line or for the bus.
But when it came to non-book reading, my evolution took a lot more time.
For a long time I was terrible about reading the news. I was vaguely informed by word or mouth, what I saw on a local newscast, or whatever non-paywalled items came through my Twitter or Facebook feed that I had moment to read right then. Very disjointed. For the moment in time when we had the famed Google Reader, I was at least able to keep up with all my friends’ blogs. But once that tool went away so did my attention.
Back in the day I made great use of Evernote Web Clipper, and any articles I found I’d save and file. But that meant I didn’t always read the articles, or didn’t always revisit them, despite my best efforts to tag them and look…
