Focus on Today

There seems to be a rising awareness of information overload, but the connection with bookmarking services is still thinly discussed. Up until recently I was an avid user of bookmarking services, but trying to keep up with the endlessly growing list of articles felt like a job and was even more distracting rather than helping me to get things done.

Of course there’s substitutes like bookmarking and read it later services but I personally find that they encourage rather than solve procrastination. Whenever I bookmark something I might think it’s interesting enough to read, but not at this time.

What I learned is that when it’s not worth your time today, it likely won’t be tomorrow and chances are it never will. You should focus on what matters today, not what might matter tomorrow.