Kellie Swart

Curious about what happens to the things we SAVE 📁 Researching it in public at The Applied Mindset, with fellow keepers of bookmarks and screenshots.

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You saved it with every intention of coming back to it.

Then later arrives, and you go somewhere else.

I write about the things we mean to return to but don't, and the reasons we saved them anyway.

If you've ever bookmarked something just to close the tab, welcome.

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What's one thing technology has made easier that you're not sure is actually better?

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You closed the tab.
The task stayed open.
A clean screen is not a finished thought.

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@uwaezukanu @herbookishsoul Sounds like it found you at the right time.
Thank you for sharing that.

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@rickard_ja92102 @manu_shroom Ticking that box must make finishing feel twice as good.

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@malfoydashopee @manu_shroom Those are the saves we'd actually miss if they disappeared.

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@MonaLisaVeto @manu_shroom Writers would probably love to know which tier they landed in.

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@uwaezukanu @herbookishsoul Love that it waited years and still landed.

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@professorqifrey The definite no's are easy. It's the maybe-one-day books that leave us standing there holding them for five minutes.

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@apipkin1 Nobody walks every path on a mountain, and it still makes a pretty great view.

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@donniecyn Scrolling back through those is a whole time capsule of every aesthetic phase we've been through.

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@AliceStainer @ThebookishC The second read is often what tells us whether it was the book or just the week we read it in. I don't know about the third :)

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@MorganSpangler The overwhelming part is the maths. The exciting part is knowing the next great read is somewhere in that stack.

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@uwaezukanu @herbookishsoul Is there one you've recorded and ended up rewatching? There always seems to be one that's even better the second time.

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@Liedora2 @ThebookishC A book everyone wrote off has nothing to live up to, so the only thing left for it to do is surprise us.

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@JonBellHistory @Forestareaceish @ThebookishC Two attempts says a lot about how much we wanted to love it. Wanting to be part of what everyone else is seeing counts for something too.

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@alexeixbt Reading about a thing has almost the same pull as doing it, minus the part where it can go wrong.

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Showing up at the right moment... that part can't be saved for later.

[𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑗𝑎 @AlejaReads]

I love when a book becomes your book.
No one recommended it to you. No one told you to read it. You just found it, loved it, and somehow, it became a part of you.>>>

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@cerisehaleth Sometimes being excited about a book is exactly why we stall. The first page has a lot to live up to.

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@goodreads It's also when the comfort rereads come out: the books we already know by heart and still want.

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@gelliwsgd A new e-reader comes with a promise that this time the reading will happen, which is a lot to ask of a gadget :)