I went up with this workflow that seem to pass the test of time and I'm sharing it with you :
- I manage to keep up with Inbox zero, almost. The only mails I keep are mostly invoices/accounting related and require sometimes discussion with accountant and my partner. I try anyway to snooze them for later and schedule them as tasks.
- I'm using ChatGPT Β» Summarize & Chat extension for Brave/Chromium (browsers) in order to save time at scrolling long articles in my inbox but yet it's important to note it's shrinking content more than summarizing it.
- I'm not subscribing to any newsletter, everything is read through MiniFlux (RSS curator. If you don't know about that, read -> what is RSS?), combined with RSS-Bridge and ChangeDetection and some tips, all self-hosted. For any newsletter that cannot be replaced with RSS feed, I rely on my hero https://kill-the-newsletter.com/. And if email has your preference over RSS, I recommend you BlogToTrottr to follow RSS/Atom in real-time by email.
- I edit my Feed titles with emojis expressing how I feel about their interest : π (Boring?) π (Joyful read) etc.
- I categorize feeds and label them also with emojis and sort them from the best to the worst. Those visuals clues really help. When I see nothing interesting for a while in any RSS I've subscribed to, I remove it from Miniflux.
- I'm customizing my RSS curation in Miniflux through some hacks.
- I dreaming to keep a maximum of 20/30 RSS feeds of interest but reality is I have hundred. Among those, I find maybe a dozen to be absolutely fantastic and I'm even sharing them in my /links section.
- I've configured Tampermonkey browser extension to take control of the rendering of my RSS feeds list and replace the whole page with "FOCUS", at least 80% of time.
- Something too long to read but that looks interesting is immediately dropped from Miniflux and shared/saved into Shaarli for later read. The goal is to declutter my subscriptions inbox.
- Articles I browser randomly and are already saved in Shaarli are saved with tags like "x2" if it's second time I save them, "x3" if it's the third save I save them, etc.
- If I find any image or PDF of interest, I save them locally to my Dropbox folder of interest. I have a folder for Books, which is subject to automatic triage with some scripting, also my ePubs are automatically converted to PDF. Duplicate files are moved to subfolders like "x2" if it's second time I save the same book, "x3" if it's third time, etc.
- Everything in Shaarli is manually labelled based on keywords because Shaarli does not support automatic labelling like Wallabag. I don't want to waste anytime adding manual labels so I'm likely about to integrate similar features either as a plugin for Shaarli, either in Tapas which is my new project I elaborate in Ideas.
- I subscribe to only 1 podcast which is Bombo Podcast, the one of my partner.
- I want to take time for whatever is worth reading, and skip the rest fast.
- Whatever is not worth is submitted to shrinking.
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