Comment by pixelmonkey

Instapaper has a lovely "Shuffle" sort option. I usually don't feel like reading what I saved last, and randomly picking one of the first 5 articles the Shuffle option presents ensures that I read at least something!

I tried to use various LLMs to go through my Instapaper stuff. It was probably 6-12 months ago and it didn't like any of my attempts.

However, I did still find one-off AI summaries to be very helpful in getting through the backlog to get me down to 0. I now stay at 0. If there is a long article I don't feel like reading, but want to know more than the headline, I will use the AI summary in my browser. That's usually good enough to absolve the guilt, without creating more guilt by adding something to the reading list.

> I do sometimes think that, at least nowadays, you can ask an LLM to visit your bookmarked links and do some semantic search over them. But I guess the best use case is just saving it for later/never rather than wasting time on it now.

I've been meaning to build something like this

I like the idea -- to extend yours -- all the bookmarks and pages visited (or pages dwelled on for more than a minute) get full-texted and filed to a local LLM. And you can query directly, and it has the context.

> I sometimes describe Instapaper as "/dev/null for web content"

Ha! I used Read It Later in a similar way. I thought of it as "Read It Never".