https://home.238168.xyz/categories/reading/Recent content in Reading on Quiet NotesHugoen_USTue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0900https://home.238168.xyz/notes/reading-list/Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0900https://home.238168.xyz/notes/reading-list/<p>My reading list used to grow much faster than I could read. Saving a title felt productive, but the list eventually became another inbox: easy to add to, slightly uncomfortable to open, and poor at helping me choose what to read next.</p> <p>The problem was not its length alone. It contained recommendations made for completely different moments. A practical handbook, a long novel, and an essay collection all competed as if they answered the same question.</p>https://home.238168.xyz/notes/bookmark-and-note/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0900https://home.238168.xyz/notes/bookmark-and-note/<p>A bookmark answers one question: where was the page? A note should answer a different one: why was the page worth keeping?</p> <p>I used to treat the two as interchangeable. Useful articles disappeared into folders with careful names, but returning months later still required reading them from the beginning. The location had survived; the reason had not.</p> <h2 id="add-one-sentence-at-capture-time"> Add one sentence at capture time <a class="heading-link" href="#add-one-sentence-at-capture-time"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>The smallest useful improvement is to write a sentence beside every important bookmark. It does not need to summarize the source. It only needs to record the connection that made the source relevant at that moment.</p>