Everything you saved is “OBE” or “overcome by events.”
That email about a product launch you’ve forgotten? OBE
That article about how to write a node.js app in es5? OBE and probably a 404
That song you wanted to listen to but never got around to adding to a playlist because you found better ones? OBE
Bookmarking, saving, noting, or whatever mechanism you use to save information for later does not mean you will ever have the information. If it’s not important enough to be actionable starting a certain date, dump it, and if it becomes important, you will find it again.
Agree that this very wise to do. We are fooled into thinking everything is important and that we are always “behind”. Being overwhelmed is generally not that you have too much to do, but it is that you don’t know where to start. Following on from your process of dealing with email, I have a bunch or aggressive filters that mark emails as “not important” and “probably not important” and then I have a google script that runs constantly and auto archives old mails with those labels, because if I haven’t dealt with them yet it’s not the end of the world and they don’t need to stick around - “OBE”!
That email about a product launch you’ve forgotten? OBE
That article about how to write a node.js app in es5? OBE and probably a 404
That song you wanted to listen to but never got around to adding to a playlist because you found better ones? OBE
Bookmarking, saving, noting, or whatever mechanism you use to save information for later does not mean you will ever have the information. If it’s not important enough to be actionable starting a certain date, dump it, and if it becomes important, you will find it again.