I’ve had a similar experience with wishlists. There are some worthwhile corollaries: rather than follow interesting-looking links as you encounter them, open them in new tabs or add them to a read-later list. Or rather than look up everything you have a passing curiosity about, or switch to whatever task catches your immediate attention, add a note to yourself in your GTD/whatever system. If you’re like me, your immediate desire will be satisfied by the knowledge that you’ll get to it soon if it’s important. And when you get around to reviewing these things, you’ll be in a more reflective mode and will notice that many of these things are not in fact worth your time.
There’s the same caveat: avoiding these things (like sources of potentially worthless links) in the first place might be a better solution for you (depending on density of chaff, to what extent lists and tab explosions stress you out, how likely you are to responsibly prune these things, whether you’ll still capture the important things without universal capture, and so on). Try both, decide for yourself.
I’ve had a similar experience with wishlists. There are some worthwhile corollaries: rather than follow interesting-looking links as you encounter them, open them in new tabs or add them to a read-later list. Or rather than look up everything you have a passing curiosity about, or switch to whatever task catches your immediate attention, add a note to yourself in your GTD/whatever system. If you’re like me, your immediate desire will be satisfied by the knowledge that you’ll get to it soon if it’s important. And when you get around to reviewing these things, you’ll be in a more reflective mode and will notice that many of these things are not in fact worth your time.
There’s the same caveat: avoiding these things (like sources of potentially worthless links) in the first place might be a better solution for you (depending on density of chaff, to what extent lists and tab explosions stress you out, how likely you are to responsibly prune these things, whether you’ll still capture the important things without universal capture, and so on). Try both, decide for yourself.