A couple of years ago I built something similar, combining RSS, HN and Twitter streams into a single feed where I could save things for later. I thought it was useful so I added a way for it to learn my habits and reorganize items in my stream by importance.
All that effort to solve information overload, and you know what? I never went back to read the articles I saved for later. And the length of the list just kept growing. Filtering down to just the interesting stuff still left too much interesting stuff for me to make it through. Eventually I had to declare "saved item" bankruptcy and delete all the data.
What I leaned was: No amount of technology is going to fix my behavior towards information consumption. Only mindfulness and a change of habits can make a real difference. Without that, these tools just add to the information overload problem.
All that effort to solve information overload, and you know what? I never went back to read the articles I saved for later. And the length of the list just kept growing. Filtering down to just the interesting stuff still left too much interesting stuff for me to make it through. Eventually I had to declare "saved item" bankruptcy and delete all the data.
What I leaned was: No amount of technology is going to fix my behavior towards information consumption. Only mindfulness and a change of habits can make a real difference. Without that, these tools just add to the information overload problem.