Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A reading list for books, papers, and articles

Keeping a reading habit can be a lot of effort these days—keeping a book list, coming across many sources online, with many ways to save articles. This week’s tip comes from jackiey99, who suggests keeping separate lists for the various things you want to read, and then pulling them together quickly in a Smart List.

I often come across some nice blogs that I want to read at a later time so that I won’t get distracted at work. I used to bookmark them using Pocket, but I almost always forgot to check back those articles. Besides, I want to develop a habit of reading at least one research paper in machine learning and data mining, and some pages of books. So I create some lists, “Blog” list for the insightful blogs I want to read later, “Papers” list for the research paper that I want to read and the “Book” list for the books I want to read. I would assign due dates to those reading tasks and a “reading” tag. Then I create a Smart List called “Daily Reading” with the following simple query:

tag:reading AND due:today

All the reading tasks that I want to do today would appear in the “Daily Reading” Smart List. I usually clear out these daily readings at my night reading time.

Thanks for sharing this tip, jackiey99! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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