Reading inbox

The reading inbox is a simple queue of external material yet to be digested. The reading inbox is primarily linked to by notes dedicated to a particular source, be it an article, research paper, etc that has yet to be processed. The backlinks of the reading inbox then serve as the queue of items to be reviewed.

Note that this is for sources that already have their own file and were created preemptively. I’m currently experimenting with Pocket, a simple and convenient source manager that I can push online material (within browser on any device). In a sense, this is really a screening process where I may bookmark a source, preview it later in Pocket, and determine it’s not useful. Only those sources that pass this initial screen get their own dedicated note in the system, at which point I book it in the “internal reading inbox” for full processing (if it’s not done when added).

This multi-step process feels a little redundant; I suppose I could use Pocket exclusively to manage sources that will definitely end up in the system, taking them only out of the “Pocket queue” when I’m ready to do a full processing in-system. Will test this out over time.