This is an awesome idea! I’ve been reading LessWrong for years, but I still fairly frequently click on links within articles that look interesting, read the first few paragraphs of the article linked to, only to realize that I’ve read it before (sometimes a few times before!)
This might be too hard to implement, but here is the system I would like: a way to mark articles as ‘unread’, ‘in progress’, or ‘read’. This information would be saved and links to articles that you marked ‘read’ would change colour. (Of course, maybe I’m the only one absentminded enough to need this!)
Exactly! My problem is that I read an interesting article, and when I come to a link I open it in a new tab to pick up the context before continuing. When I haven’t read the article I learn something new, but when I’ve already seen the linked-to article I can’t tell until I’m into the second paragraph or so. Then, I have to re-read the original to get back to where I was.
Perhaps better reading comprehension techniques would fix this for me, but I suspect that a lot of new readers run into this problem.
This is an awesome idea! I’ve been reading LessWrong for years, but I still fairly frequently click on links within articles that look interesting, read the first few paragraphs of the article linked to, only to realize that I’ve read it before (sometimes a few times before!)
This might be too hard to implement, but here is the system I would like: a way to mark articles as ‘unread’, ‘in progress’, or ‘read’. This information would be saved and links to articles that you marked ‘read’ would change colour. (Of course, maybe I’m the only one absentminded enough to need this!)
Exactly! My problem is that I read an interesting article, and when I come to a link I open it in a new tab to pick up the context before continuing. When I haven’t read the article I learn something new, but when I’ve already seen the linked-to article I can’t tell until I’m into the second paragraph or so. Then, I have to re-read the original to get back to where I was.
Perhaps better reading comprehension techniques would fix this for me, but I suspect that a lot of new readers run into this problem.