Ben Reichelt’s Weblog

I’ve found that I have a weird usage pattern within Bloglines.  When I come across something that I find interesting, and I don’t have time to read it, I’ll save it for reading later.  If I DO have time to read it, I’ll read it, and then still save it for later viewing, as if to tell myself that this article is important.  I did just that 5 minutes ago with Steve Eichert’s latest post about the query api that he’s been working on, I read the entire post, but since I found it interesting, I saved it.

After I’ve read a post and its still saved, I’ll keep it saved for as long I feel is necessary to remind myself about it.  I don’t do this consciously, I just keep it saved for some weird OCD-like reason.  Once I feel like I have sufficiently remembered the post, its contents, and the location of it (who posted it), I’ll unsave it.

This actually seems to work pretty well, because articles that I want to find later on, I can easily recall who wrote them, and once I know that a quick stop to google and I’ve got it.