Information shelf life

I don't know if you are the same as me. When you browse and search for materials online, you will often find some excellent content with a long length, and you don't have time to read it immediately, it is not related to the content you are looking for, or you think you should add the link to your favorites, copy the text, save it, and tell yourself, "Let's see it later!"

In this case, most of them will not be viewed in the future.

Especially when I subscribe to emails, magazines, and lists, I always put them in the inbox. I want to read them later, but I will never read them again.

"I subscribed to Microsoft's technical email !" You may often hear people say this, but some of the people who say this do have to read each letter, and some may just read it occasionally, if you don't have time, leave it in your inbox. There is indeed a subscription-but it is just a subscription. He never looked at it, and said, "add to Favorites. Therefore, there are not so many people who really read and use the information on the Internet.

More exaggerated is the spread of e-books on the Internet. "I only have dozens of C # e-books !" People who boast about it must have never read any of them-just as I said in "Something is easy to say", books are never read, those who collect electronic books will never read them.

If this is because the information on the Internet is free, it is not only information on the Internet, but also information in daily life. Walking in any street or alley in Beijing, you will always find a newsstand. The current newsstand is "extremely big and rich". Its face and sides are full of various newspapers and magazines, every time I see them, I think they are in a "overflow" state, fearing that they will crash at any time ". Computer and IT-related magazines have nothing to read except the "public software" eight years ago. Today there are dozens of visual estimates. Not to mention anything, it is said that every month to buy 《ProgramMembers or friends of msdn Chinese magazine, have you read the magazines carefully every month? Have you read all the books such as design patterns, test-driven development, and especially the English version? I still want to go to the court and tell myself to "watch it later?

Check your computer's "inbox" and "favorites" and saved web pages, check your bookcases, and your notebooks and memos. Check whether the information that you call "favorites" is accumulated in the Cold palace?

"I don't want to watch it all my life. I will always find time ." There will be no fewer people to justify. -- I thought so myself. Let those people think that way -- when you move in 10 years later, you find that one of your books says, "There is a good article about Windows 95.ArticleIs ......", Do you think it makes sense?

Information in the world we live in is fresh. After the shelf life information, it is like a canned fish that has passed the shelf life, from fresh delicious to rotten fish.

Adding information to favorites is equivalent to putting it into the garbage bin.

[Suggestion]

· "Forget it. Let's see it later ." "Maybe when will I look at it again ." "You have a chance to see it ." "You have time to watch it ." In this case, I will never try again. So let's put an end to this idea from now on.

· Check all the current "favorites" information. You can view all the information within two weeks. Delete all the items that should not be saved; Delete the items that are confirmed to have no time to read; and donate the English books that you have no time to read to the Hope Project.

· In the future, we will try our best to read the books, magazines, and subscribed newsletters we bought at that time.

· Always remember, it is useless to store knowledge on a hard disk. It is useful only when it is stored in your brain.