How do you approach your DEV "Reading List"?
Ruben Sanchez

Ruben Sanchez @rubenwap

About: Software Engineer

Joined:
Nov 19, 2019

How do you approach your DEV "Reading List"?

Publish Date: May 22 '20
17 9

I have noticed that when faced with articles that are either long, or likely to be useful in the future, people tend to add them to their reading list.

I am curious about how do you use this list. Do you set a time during the week when you go through it and read what you have saved during the last days?

Do you use it as a sort of library, where you can go and search for answers on interesting topics whenever the need comes?

Personally, I am guilty of saving cool stuff in my reading list but then never going back to it, so I am looking for tips on how to optimize this behavior and take advantage of the awesome content I save.

Me, searching for that cool Python article I saw last week

Comments 9 total

  • Pacharapol Withayasakpunt
    Pacharapol WithayasakpuntMay 22, 2020

    Without a searching API, bookmarks are like drowning. Dev.to should expose a searchable API which might be Swagger or GraphQL.

    • Dave Parr
      Dave ParrJun 30, 2020

      They actually have an API, however I don't think it exposes the readinglist unfortunately. I think that would be neat, as then I could read the articles on my e-reader via pocket. Maybe that can be achieved via webhooks though? I'm not certain.

  • Avalander
    AvalanderMay 23, 2020

    I'm ashamed to admit this, but my strategy is adding articles to my reading list and forgetting about them.

    • Ruben Sanchez
      Ruben SanchezMay 23, 2020

      I am happy to see that I am not alone when doing that! 😅

    • rhymes
      rhymesMay 23, 2020

      don't be, any strategy is fine :-)

  • Alok Prateek
    Alok PrateekMay 23, 2020

    Well, I've always had a different strategy - I usually bookmark articles in dev.to which are either long or I cannot read them when I find it. I usually give one day a month to read them. For articles I will refer to I save them in browser bookmarks. Though I would love to see atleast ability to group saved articles into collections.

  • Ruben Sanchez
    Ruben SanchezMay 23, 2020

    I wonder if the people who are saving this article into their reading list are doing so ironically 😁

  • rhymes
    rhymesMay 23, 2020

    I used to be a "reading list inbox zero" person, the lockdown made that 0 levitate to 240+ items. I'll catch up :D

    I do not keep items that I've already read in the reading list. I read an item, I take it out. Simple as that. If I need to save something for long term I use the browser bookmarks, nothing fancier than that.

Add comment