There are two types of bookmarkers: The one who put a piece of paper, sometimes artfully decorated, between the pages and those who fold the corner of their book, at times developing an intricate system. Which one are you?
I belong in the camp of folding corners. Mostly when I pick up a book I don't think about putting it down. Overcome by real life I'm frantically looking for (a) a place to safely put the book, and (b) a way to remember what passage I last read. The system of folding the corner of the page + making a fine indent at the exact line with your finger nail has proven fail proof. You book can fall out of your bag, be snatched away by kids or tumble down 1000s flights of stairs and you can effortless find your spot.
Unfortunately nowadays most bookmarks carry less weight. It's a click. But without the sound. And as it carries no sound, its meaning diminishes, slowly going to zero.
We used to bookmark sites, at a time when the search bar was less intelligent. Do you remember? Tools existed, and still do, to collect bookmarks as a community, tag them collectively, and bring joy into each others life. We used to curate together. Or at least tried to. Now everyone is creating their own individual second brain. To dump, to stressed, to hurried to remember.
I bookmark tweets, to not forget them. But forget that I bookmark them. It becomes another inbox that never turns to zero as I never do anything with this collection.
My most recent past-time is collecting bookmarks on Farcaster. One for each client. I got supercast-bookmarks, and warpcast-bookmarks. Maybe I start nooks-bookmarks. Warpcast is so friendly to spam my inbox, telling me what casts I marked. But without an inbox zero mentality, I ignore the email. Or do I keep it unread? 24 hours after getting it, I already forgot. I think I deleted it. It feels the right to do, wouldn't you say?
Let's see what I wanted to not forget, the never-ending FOMO...
Meg's crowdsourced article on How to build an onchain audience, because I want to learn. https://warpcast.com/meganmichelle.eth/0x304ea1c3
Nounish Prof's cast on who the product bros with emotions are: Crypto gals. https://warpcast.com/nounishprof/0x1503a090
Humpty's (fellow higher tattoo wearer) newest podcast with Colin. Should be on 🔥 but as it's on youtube, let's be honest: I might never end up watching it https://warpcast.com/humpty.eth/0x154644b1
Nounish Prof (again) cast looking for frame games. I've been looking for them too https://warpcast.com/nounishprof/0xed5075ce
Sahil's take on V's take on feedmarketplaces because it's interested for my business TogetherCrew https://warpcast.com/sahil/0xa305889e
Basil's explanation of Alafrens becaus I just don't get the app, but several days later haven't read this https://warpcast.com/itsbasil/0xf3ac7160
Alex Paden's postgres replicator, because well it's data, duh https://warpcast.com/alexpaden/0xa235c685
Vishal's frame to discover what I have in common with others which I've never tried but bookmarked. Go figure https://warpcast.com/vmathur/0xe82f4e79
Adam's cast about Airstacks social capital value, because I missed this feature and wanted to read up on it before going to Farcon, but completely forgot about it.https://warpcast.com/adam-/0x1e904d26
j4ck expalantion of how to get my FarCon, because for once I wanted to be prepared. But then I had a vibes pass and he didn't have the smart contract... ticket https://warpcast.com/j4ck.eth/0x5c6a800e
Henri Stern's request for graph that is interesting but idk https://warpcast.com/henri/0x4ccde789
...and some tools I wanted to check out, blog posts I wanted to read, videos I wanted to watch, casts I wanted to reply to.
Morale of the story: Just do it. Right now, right there. There is no perfect moment. Wanna read something: Read. Wanna watch something: Watch. Only exceptions are Dune dashboards (notoriously bad on mobile and that's ok) and information for events like how to turn your NFT into a ticket.
