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How do I collect links on my Mac using Collections?

I believe in rituals. I stretch, memorize new Japanese words or do pushups at around the same time every day. This way I don't have to spend precious mental cycles deciding what has to be done now. You apply this energy for more creative endeavors. 

I happen to do my online reading (which is separate from one hour I spend reading books on Kindle) at around 10pm after work. Collecting links is essential part of this experience. When on iPad, I use Flipboard or Hacker News app and share the most interesting reads on Twitter. It appears to be the easiest way to save the articles I read when I'm on iPad. However, if you want to organize your links, still nothing can beat the desktop. 

Here's a simple streamlined routine I use when reading online on my Mac: 

Reading new articles / watching talks and interviews from my subscriptions on Google Reader (the usual suspects are blogs like 'Study Hacks', 'Thought Catalog', 'Both Sides of the Table', 'Altucher Confidential', 'Signal vs Noise', 'The Blog of Tim Ferriss: Experiments in Lifestyle Design' and many others) as well as links whose titles caught my attention on the front page of Hacker News. [1]

Collecting. After each article read or a talk watched, I save those which are worth collecting by pressing Cmd + Shift + C in Chrome. They immediately appear in my Collections Inbox.

Organizing. Once the best links of the day are in my inbox, I drag and drop them in appropriate collections. Articles on productivity or career advice go to 'Learn thyself' collection, reads on behavioral economics or mental performance go to 'Learn to learn', blog posts on random things like faster reading or memorizing a deck of cards go to 'Learn anything'. Papers and technical posts on new web frameworks or libraries are the perfect candidates for the 'Learn to code' collection (intentional "beginner's mind" title). 'Learn to start' is my collection on the lasting pieces and insightful videos on startups and entrepreneurship. 

Now your turn! Share in comments what tools you use to collect interesting links from the web. What in those tools do you find useful and what you wish was done differently?

Notes:

[1] Due to 'second spring of cleaning', Google Reader unfortunately will not be the part of this process. Constraints enforce creativity (and procrastination), so I will most likely find a replacement on the last day of June ;)

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Arman (@suleimenov). Collections - The File Manager Reinvented. 

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How do I collect links on my desktop using Collections?

I believe in rituals. I stretch, memorize new Japanese words or do pushups at around the same time every day. This way I don't have to spend precious mental cycles deciding what has to be done now. You apply this energy for more creative endeavors. 

I happen to do my online reading (which is separate from one hour I spend reading books on Kindle) at around 10pm after work. Collecting links is essential part of this experience. When on iPad, I use Flipboard or Hacker News app and share the most interesting reads on Twitter. It appears to be the easiest way to save the articles I read when I'm on iPad. However, if you want to organize your links, still nothing can beat the desktop. 

Here's a simple streamlined routine I use when reading online on my Mac: 

Reading new articles / watching talks and interviews from my subscriptions on Google Reader (the usual suspects are blogs like 'Study Hacks', 'Thought Catalog', 'Both Sides of the Table', 'Altucher Confidential', 'Signal vs Noise', 'The Blog of Tim Ferriss: Experiments in Lifestyle Design' and many others) as well as links whose titles caught my attention on the front page of Hacker News. [1]

Collecting. After each article read or a talk watched, I save those which are worth collecting by pressing Cmd + Shift + C in Chrome. They immediately appear in my Collections Inbox.

Organizing. Once the best links of the day are in my inbox, I drag and drop them in appropriate collections. Articles on productivity or career advice go to 'Learn thyself' collection, reads on behavioral economics or mental performance go to 'Learn to learn', blog posts on random things like faster reading or memorizing a deck of cards go to 'Learn anything'. Papers and technical posts on new web frameworks or libraries are the perfect candidates for the 'Learn to code' collection (intentional "beginner's mind" title). 'Learn to start' is my collection on the lasting pieces and insightful videos on startups and entrepreneurship. 

Now your turn! Share in comments what tools you use to collect interesting links from the web. What in those tools do you find useful and what you wish was done differently?

Notes:

[1] Due to 'second spring of cleaning', Google Reader unfortunately will not be the part of this process. Constraints enforce creativity (and procrastination), so I will most likely find a replacement on the last day of June ;)

--

Arman (@suleimenov)