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+slug: "on-bookmarks-lists-and-the-habit-of-reading-later"
+title: "On Bookmarks, Lists and the Habit of Reading Later"
+pubDate: 2024-09-25T22:24:04.178Z
+draft: true
+tags:
+  - thoughts
+---
+
+Bookmarks are underrated features. It's a good way to help you having a track
+not of what you need to read, but also what you need to do. Further that, your
+bookmarks can be a way to structure of your reading and your knowledge, for future
+reference, as Josh Leeb talked about [here](https://joshleeb.com/posts/organizing-bookmarks.html).
+
+## About the organization of my bookmarks
+
+Inspired by a friend of mine, since January 2024 I started having a "reading list"
+of my bookmarks. As commented on [RSS and why I love it](https://noghartt.dev/blog/rss-and-why-i-love-it),
+I have a RSS feed that I use to read a lot of things during the day. But, one thing
+that I missed was the ability to have a list of things that should store: what I
+already read and what I need to read (in the future, that kind of list that always
+increases).
+
+So, as you can see on my [bookmarks page](https://noghartt.dev/bookmarks), I have
+a list containing all the content that I have consumed since January 2024, not just
+articles, but also videos, podcasts, etc. I have [another page](https://noghartt.dev/bookmarks/tags)
+to see them grouped by their tags, so I can easily find a specific bookmark given
+the tag I want.
+
+### How do I store my bookmarks?
+
+The tool that I use to manage my bookmarks is [Omnivore](https://omnivore.app/),
+an open source bookmark manager and "read-it later" app. For my use case, it's a
+great tool, I have their extension for browser installed that I use to store the
+tab that I'm seeing.
+
+Also, I'm using their mobile app, which let me read all the bookmarks that I have.
+In that case, I'm using it most for reading my "read-it later" articles while on
+gym, for example.
+
+## About the list of my bookmarks
+
+As mentioned before, further the list on Omnivore, I have a list of my bookmarks
+inside this blog. In that, I have two specific ways to organize them: grouped by
+month and grouped by tags.
+
+Most of the time, I'm using it based on tags because I think that it's how my brain
+works, so it's faster to remember what I exactly want. For example, if I want to
+read something that I didn't read yet, I can just go to the tag `#for-later`. If
+I want to recover something related to a computer science topic, I can go to the
+tag `#cs` or one of their specific subtags like `#cs/distsys`.
+
+Specifically about tags, mentioning again Josh Leeb, he wrote a post about
+[Scopped Tagging Bookmarks](https://joshleeb.com/posts/scoped-tagging.html). where
+he tries some approaches and explain some of the problems and present some approaches
+for it.
+
+In my case, I have a kind of implementation of what he mentioned as HNT (Hierachircal
+Namespaced Tagging), so on Omnivore and, you can see here at my blog, I did a hierarchical
+structure for my tags. But, I think that it's a process that can be error prone
+sometimes, like when you need to be a more specific tag or a less specific, or when
+you didn't find a specific tag that matches your needs for some bookmark.
+
+## About the habit of reading later
+
+Then, as mentioned before, one of my specific tags that I use (and I believe that
+is one of the most used by myself), is `#for-later`. Specifically this tag, I use
+to store every bookmark that I didn't read yet but I think that it's interesting.
+
+I don't like the idea of storing "read-it later" articles at all, seems to be more
+a product of a FOMO than a real interest, but it's something that I still maintaining
+just as a "habit".
+
+Also, I think that it's a trade-off that you need to deal with, your list of read-it
+later articles will be growing over time, and you will need to choose and validate
+if that content really will be interesting for you in the future.