Why am I bookmarking everything that I read online?

For awhile now, I’ve been archiving almost everything that I read online to Micro.blog Bookmarks. Originally this was because I was using it as my “read it later” service, but now I’m using the Reading List in Safari instead, as part of my return to defaults.

I have a vague sense that if I keep track of everything that I read, I’ll be able to analyze it in some meaningful way to identify trends or new ideas. But, I’ve never actually done this and I’m not even sure what I would learn, even if I did.

Partly in response to A Metabolic Workspace by Joan Westenberg, I’m going to stop doing this. Anything that is actually interesting, like Joan’s post, will get captured by my Commonplace entry script with which I provide at least some summary of why I captured it. Simply archiving every url has no use to me.

Otherwise, I’ll go back to using Micro.blog Bookmarks for its original purpose, which is to capture highlights in articles that I want to blog about. This workflow is good and targeted to a specific use.