This is part of a series. You can check out the original post called Chipping away at my Reading List, where you’ll also find the other posts. At the time of writing, my reading list is 231 items.
Part 3: Whittling away the other resources
I’ve given this a break while I’ve been unwell, and am coming back with a fresh(er) mind. So hopefully this is the easy step. There are a few other lists I keep where I have things that could be considered readings. I really shouldn’t be maintaining these, or at least not putting readings in there. If I did in the past, I need to move them so I can actually get to them.
The “other resources” looks like:
- 41 blogposts in my Blogposts list.
- 14 books in my Books To Read list.
- 4 Saved posts in Linkedin.
So that’s 59 potential things to get rid of from my list of 231. Let’s do this.
- Readings need to go into the Readings lists
- Useful resources need to go to that list of resources I made in the last step. Or, grouped and organised accordingly.
- As before, delete everything I’m done with.
Some Notes
- My list of blogposts were things I wanted to write, mostly. Shouldn’t have counted that, but ya gotta bump up those numbers. Some of those went to the reading list and I’m now not counting it anymore.
- My Books To Read list was mostly industry stuff, which I’ve moved into Readings. There are a few sci-fi books in there which I’m not counting anymore either.
- There are articles written about how to find your saved posts on LinkedIn’s desktop app. No wonder I don’t use it; I’ve moved the articles I have to resources and will never be saving any again.
How it went
These lists are knocked out now, at least. Everything is now consolidated. Which means I removed 59 posts from my reading list, and through saving some, added back 15. My reading list is at a nice round number of 190.
A good place to start from… ?
