CLOSED: [2017-07-25 Tue 19:37] SCHEDULED: <2017-07-25 Tue> :PROPERTIES: :CREATED: [2017-07-25 Tue 14:17] :ID: 2017-07-25-efficient-reading-magazines :END: :LOGBOOK: - State "DONE" from "STARTED" [2017-07-25 Tue 19:37] :END: This is a small trick to avoid losing track with magazine articles that are not that interesting to you: focus on the most interesting articles. --------- With IT magazines going from a monthly to a bi-weekly basis without getting much thinner, I had to come up with a clever way of keeping focus. I was not able to read through all the articles I found interesting. Mostly, because I do find almost anything interesting to read. Here is my trick: I read the table of contents and optionally skim through the magazine. The articles I definitely want to read, get a small Post-It at the very bottom of the right hand side. Articles I do find interesting but do not get priority get a Post-It a few centimeters higher. #+CAPTION: Post-Its on an IT magazine. From left/bottom to right/top: 1 priority article to read, several other articles to read, one with pending things and then all the articles that are read. #+ATTR_HTML: :align center :width 500 [[tsfile:2017-07-24T18.11.01 Lesemarkierungen iX - Post-its -- pim publicvoit.jpg]] When an article is read, its Post-It gets moved to the top part of the page. Whenever I read an article and there is something I want to get back to later on, I put the Post-It in the middle of the page. This way, I concentrate on reading the most important articles first without getting lost in all that wonderful stuff within IT magazines.