# The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps ## Zaimportowane z Omnivore |Link oryginalny|https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-secret-power-of-read-it-later-apps| |---|---| |Tytuł|The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps| |Autor_|Tiago Forte| |Data publikacji|2022-01-24 01:00:00| |Data przeczytania|2024-06-19T06:29:05.000Z| |Opis oryginalny|At the end of 2014 I received an email informing me that I had read over a million words in the ‘read it later’ app Pocket| |Mój opis|Dlaczego warto używać aplikacji typu Przeczytaj-To-Później| |Ilość słów|3726| ## Moje podkreślenia ### Podkreślenie z dnia > The fact is, **the ability to read is becoming a source of competitive advantage in the world**. > (...) > A [recent article](https://hbr.org/2005/01/overloaded-circuits-why-smart-people-underperform) in the Harvard Business Review puts a name to this new neurological phenomenon: Attention Deficit Trait. #### Moje dopiski Ciekawe, że w obecnym świecie coraz trudniej ludziom czytać, sama po sobie widzę, że czytanie książek idzie mi oporniej niż przed laty. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > So-called “Read It Later” apps give you the ability to “save” content on the web for later consumption. They are essentially advanced bookmarking apps, pulling in the content from a page to be read or viewed in a cleaner, simpler visual layout. #### Moje dopiski Czytanie tekstów cyfrowych bez zbędnych rozpraszaczy jest zdecydowanie łatwiejsze ;) ### Podkreślenie z dnia > You can also view your list in a “tile” layout on the web, making it into essentially a personalized magazine. Personalized, in this case, not by a cold, unfeeling algorithm, but by your past self #### Moje dopiski To też jest ciekawy benefit, można też wykorzystać zapisane artykuły, żeby potem przeanalizować jakie treści przyciągają naszą uwagę i czym karmimy swój umysł. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > key question when creating any workflow: how and from where does information enter the system? The quality of a workflow’s outputs is fundamentally limited by the quality of its inputs. #### Moje dopiski - [ ] zrobić rozpiskę jak i z jakich źródeł informacje lądują w moim ogrodzie - to by mógł być ciekawy diagram ;) ### Podkreślenie z dnia > In order to consume good ideas, first you have to consume many ideas. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > The problem is that our entire digital world is geared toward snackable chunks of low-grade information — photos, tweets, statuses, snaps, feeds, cards, etc. To fight the tide you have to redesign your environment — you have to create affordances. > Affordance (n.): a relation between an object and an organism that, through a collection of stimuli, **affords the opportunity for that organism to perform an action.** #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > Read It Later apps, by slurping in content (articles, videos, slideshows) into a clean interface, eliminate the culprits — ads, site analytics, popups — all the stuff you don’t care about. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > Much of the time when we pull out our phone, we’re looking for something to match our mood (or energy, or time available, or other context). We use our constellation of shiny apps as mood regulators and self-soothers, as time-fillers and boredom-suppressors, for better or worse. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > People who don’t have their Read/Review material organized can waste a lot of time, since **life is full of weird little windows when it could be used.** #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > There is something deeply, deeply unsatisfying about repeatedly starting something and not finishing it. This is what we experience all day at work, being continuously interrupted by a stream of “emergencies.” The last thing we want after a stressful day starved of wins is to fail even at reading an article. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > The [2015 revised edition (affiliate link)](https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity-ebook/dp/B00KWG9M2E/ref=as%5Fli%5Fss%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=fortelabs07-20&linkId=fe6db72d8e5bbb38b1ea43241924f7e9&language=en%5FUS) of _Getting Things Done_ [cites the work](http://users.wfu.edu/masicaej/MasicampoBaumeister2011JPSP.pdf) of Dr. Roy Baumeister, who has shown that “uncompleted tasks take up room in the mind, which then limits clarity and focus.” The risk of cognitive dissonance at not being able to finish a long article (much less a book) keep us from even beginning it. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > It is a question of focus. Why don’t you use your task manager to keep track of content (i.e. “Read this article”)? Because the last thing you want to see when you cuddle up with your hot cocoa for some light reading is the hundreds of tasks you’re not doing. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > What I’m essentially doing is creating a buffer. Instead of pushing a new piece of info through from intake to processing to consumption without any scrutiny, I’m creating a pool of options drawn from a longer time period, which allows me to make decisions from a higher perspective, where those decisions are much better aligned with what truly matters to me. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > The amount of information in the world is a [progress trap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress%5Ftrap). Too much stuff to read is just as limiting as too little. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > As the inimitable Venkatesh Rao [has written](http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/), we’re moving from a world of **containers** (companies, departments, semesters, packages, silos) to a world of **streams** (social networks, info feeds, main streets of thriving cities, Twitter). Problems and opportunities alike resist having neat little boxes drawn around them. There’s way too much to absorb. Way too much to even guess what you don’t know. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > When you’re immersed in a stream, the faster it goes, the more novel perspectives and ideas you’re exposed to. You develop an [opposable mind](http://rogerlmartin.com/lets-read/the-opposable-mind) — the ability to juggle and play around with different perspectives on any issue, instead of seeing it through one lens. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > Increasingly, the only metric that will matter in your journey of personal growth will be **ROL: Rate-of-Learning**. We’ve heard a lot in recent years about the importance of hands-on learning and practical experimentation. We get it. Burying your head in a book by itself gets you nowhere. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > Ideas are high leverage agents. They become more so when arranged in highly cross-referenced networks. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > There is one form of leverage even more powerful than the initial assumptions and paradigms that inform a system’s development: the **ability to transcend paradigms**. #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > there is no certainty in any worldview. But, in fact, everyone who has managed to entertain that idea, for a moment or for a lifetime, has found it to be the basis for radical empowerment. **If no paradigm is right, you can choose whatever one will help to achieve your purpose.** #### Moje dopiski Nie dodałam żadnych dodatkowych notatek. ### Podkreślenie z dnia > Reading is the closest thing we have to thinking another’s thoughts. #### Moje dopiski PL: "Czytanie jest najbliższą czynnością do poznania myśli innych." Bardzo mi się podoba to porównanie.