2019 Hyperlink Audit
Last year, I stopped visiting websites through RSS and Twitter and chose an entirely old-school route: I made a list of bookmarks with tags in Pinboard.
I find this to be a much calmer way to browse the web. No notifications. No links to break my concentration. There’s nowhere I need to be every day. Recently, I updated it with a clearer sense of what worked (my original also had vastly uneven bookmarks per day).
This isn’t every site I go to. I definitely hit up TTC Alerts more often than I should. These are just sites I like to go to that I don’t have to go to.
Here are the rules I’ve made for myself. They work pretty well at keeping things calm.
Try to keep each day to 5 or fewer sites.
A site is a weekly or monthly visit, not both.
Only visit the sites bookmarked for the day of the week/month.
If you miss a day, don’t go backwards. They’ll come around again.
If you wanted to be a completionist, you’d be using RSS.
Quick note: I really couldn’t have done this without Copy as Markdown, a chrome extension that makes links out of all your open tabs.
Here’s my updated list for 2019.
Days of the Week
Monday
Kotaku
Menage a 3
swissmiss
Vulture
Tuesday
Sinfest
The Verge
Twelve Thirty Six
Cageside Seats
Life in Aggro
Wednesday
Daring Fireball
Events in Toronto
Literary Hub
Poorly Drawn Lines
xkcd
Thursday
4amShower
diesel sweeties
Gizmodo
Narcity
Penny Arcade
Friday
All Things Go
kottke
Monocle
The Outline
Broadly
Something About Our Lives
Days of the Month
1
Futility Closet
Product Hunt
ribbonfarm
NOW Magazine
2
BIRP! Indie Playlists
Chuck Wendig
Jessica Stanley
Warren Ellis
3
Somesuch Stories
Work Friend
Said the Gramophone
The Book Design Blog
4
Craig Mod
InDesignSecrets
MEL Magazine
TorrentFreak
5
Karley Sciortino
Macleans.ca
Rowers Reading Series
Tools and Toys
6
iMore
Joyland
Mary Hrovat
Popula
7
Kirkville
Room Magazine
The Rumpus.net
Believer Magazine
8
Metro Toronto Convention Centre Events
Daniel Benneworth-Gray
Humble Bundle
Joe Clark
9
Flipster eMagazines
Passion of the Weiss
Writeside
Zeldman
10
Aerogramme Writers’ Studio
BuzzFeed Reader
Dwell
Pivot Readings at The Tranzac
11
Anime Feminist
Buffalo Tones
the new shelton wet/dry
The Verge
Tall Penguin
12
Literary Review of Canada
Paris Review
The GaMERCaT
The Guardian Book Reviews
13
Ampersunder
Hazlitt
Patchwork Mosaic
The Oatmeal
14
50% Hipster
Dense Discovery
Khoi Vinh
The Loop
Penelope Trunk
15
Criminal Wisdom
My Nintendo
Fancy
Michael Tsai
16
Fluxblog
InfoDesign
Om Malik
Pixel Envy
17
All My Stars
Roger Ebert
18
All Things Go
Meetup in Toronto
Signal v. Noise
Derek Sivers Blog
19
3 Quarks Daily
Pitchfork
Jezebel
Tiny Cartridge
20
Cool Hunting
David Shoemaker
Electric Literature
Sharecuts
21
Book Marks
kung fu grippe
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Sophie’s Floorboard
22
Aeon Essays
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
Paris Review
ToFoodies
karigee.com
23
Lifehacker
MUBI
Reductress
The Grey Estates
24
All Lit Up
Austin Kleon
Laughing Squid
Red Meat
25
Black Nerd Problems
Esquire
Extenuating Circumstances
Rotate This Tickets
Dinah Sanders
26
Audacious Fox
Bespoke Post
Stereogum
Trish Hopkinson
27
Nieman Journalism Lab
Robert Heaton
Monkey Bicycle
Robin Sloan
28
Boing Boing
nahumck.me
The Danforth Music Hall
The Awkward Yeti
Dampfkraft
29
Forward
Times Open
Two-Bit History
Six Colors
30
Drafts Action Directory
The New Yorker
Tits and Sass
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