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Issue 84: My minimalist approach to keeping track of what I want to read

Issue 84: My minimalist approach to keeping track of what I want to read

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Petya K. Grady
Sep 26, 2024
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As I gear up for a month of reading Joan Didion and little less, I thought this would be a good opportunity to share my system for keeping track of what I want to read. This - to be clear - does not explain how I choose what to actually read next, which is largely determined by mood and what I read last. Instead, this is more like an extension of my brain - what I used to simply remember before I had a kid and lost my ability to retain names and titles and started calling all white men Dave. 🫣

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