New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When we note down cool things for later, why do they feel boring?
Ask HN: When we note down cool things for later, why do they feel boring?
19 by loquor | 7 comments on Hacker News.
a.k.a. why do we never get around to plan-to-watch/plan-to-read lists, even though we care about them enough to meticulously earmark them for later? When I encounter interesting things but can't dive into them at that time, I try to list them down or organize them together so that I don't forget about them and so that I can come back to them later. But regularly, the exact opposite happens - I never open these lists and they are not attractive to me at all. Some recent examples: 1. I had added many interesting articles to pocket, and meticulously tagged them by category. But I never opened Pocket since. 2. I note down hundred of exciting ideas on Notion. Yet I literally never feel like rereading any of them. 3. I've listed down the GOAT and the most-appealing-to-me pieces of media, among movies, anime, games, books etc. But I never feel like going back to these lists and picking something from them. So can please someone tell me what's going on here? Is it that this save-for-later behaviour is killing the excitement that a new thing brings? I'm puzzled why I don't like picking up self-curated media. If I had encountered that thing by itself (i.e. not from a self-curated list) and started it at that moment, I think I would've enjoyed it enthusiastically. Yet my enthusiasm dies when I save that thing for later. Do you experience this too? What could be going on here?
19 by loquor | 7 comments on Hacker News.
a.k.a. why do we never get around to plan-to-watch/plan-to-read lists, even though we care about them enough to meticulously earmark them for later? When I encounter interesting things but can't dive into them at that time, I try to list them down or organize them together so that I don't forget about them and so that I can come back to them later. But regularly, the exact opposite happens - I never open these lists and they are not attractive to me at all. Some recent examples: 1. I had added many interesting articles to pocket, and meticulously tagged them by category. But I never opened Pocket since. 2. I note down hundred of exciting ideas on Notion. Yet I literally never feel like rereading any of them. 3. I've listed down the GOAT and the most-appealing-to-me pieces of media, among movies, anime, games, books etc. But I never feel like going back to these lists and picking something from them. So can please someone tell me what's going on here? Is it that this save-for-later behaviour is killing the excitement that a new thing brings? I'm puzzled why I don't like picking up self-curated media. If I had encountered that thing by itself (i.e. not from a self-curated list) and started it at that moment, I think I would've enjoyed it enthusiastically. Yet my enthusiasm dies when I save that thing for later. Do you experience this too? What could be going on here?
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