Comment by aappleby
6 hours ago
So here's what's worked for me over the years -
I collect interesting links/pages/stuff by emailing myself notes about them. I never actually _do_ anything with these notes, but from time to time I open the "Notes To Self" folder and skim through them. Anything that seems worthless I delete, anything that seems obvious I delete, the rest just sit there.
And that's more useful than you'd think - by reviewing them semi-regularly, you're indirectly memorizing their contents and refreshing their presence in your short term memory. And that to me is the benefit - not "copy this cool thing", but "feed my mind cool ideas until it has digested them and incorporated them into the gestalt.
Thank you for sharing the email‑to‑self workflow and regular review habit. How often you prune the folder and whether you’d appreciate intelligent reminders.
I do something similar but also cooy the most interesting of these into Obsidian. Doesn't take long and the activity of sorting helps me remember. It's amazing how often when I skim these that I find something interesting/profound/useful that I've forgotten.
Cool! This just goes to show that old savings can sometimes come in handy.