I’ve been saving digital articles, posts, and web pages to ‘read later’ since I can’t remember when. Many, many years. And at some point when I was director of the Co-production Network for Wales, my level of busy-ness overtook my ability to have downtime to think, read, encounter new things – though my desire to do so didn’t abate and I kept bookmarking interesting things I came across, for the elusive day when I would be able to catch up on my reading.
Nearly 800 bookmarks haunt my bookmarks toolbar, organised in neat folders. (And that’s not counting videos which are anything between 2 mins and 2 hours long, but we’re not talking about thoseright now.) It’s digital clutter, unrealised potential, probably gems that I’ve forgotten about. By this point, it’s been so long that a number of the links have died. I don’t even know what’s in there.
It is time.
Time to deal with the bookmarks hoard.
The plan is: at the end of every week I will open 12 bookmarks.
They might be dead, in which case I will promptly discard them with no regrets, it was not meant to be.
They might not be of interest any more, the artefacts of a passing thought, a fleeting episode from past me, these can also go, ta-ra, not my bag any more.
And some will still be interesting and relevant, and my mission-should-I-wish-to-accept-it (of course I do) is to finally read them, and I shall make a note of what I am learning or what I want to keep.
It may just be me in procrastination mode now, but I sense a new system coming on, another layer of accountability, a new blog category, a folder of findings… tadaaa! I present to you: READING.
