a service that i’ve been using for over a decade is shutting down. although, honestly i haven’t been using it much in the past few years. however, in the first few years, i was always on the top 10% or sometimes top 5% reader list at the year-end review (yeah Pocket was cool before Spotify). but i must admit… i think i was more like a top “article-saver” than anything… according to my exported lists, i’ve amassed almost 20k (19,874) articles; most of which i have not read. i saved them because i did not have the time to digest the texts… and now i don’t even have the time to save articles. lol.

the shutdown makes sense, since many browsers now have a built-in function to “read later”. heck, i even have a number of unread articles bookmarked on Safari (yeah i’m that person who doesn’t use Chrome unless i absolutely have to) (i also use Keynote, Pages and Numbers) (guess i’m currently a top 5% Apple fan because i’m even finding myself liking iBooks more than Kindle).

you can approximately pinpoint when i stopped reading that much —— it’s about when i stopped updating my Consumption Diaries. well, before reviving them in the hopefully near future, i am still stuck here.

i ferociously collected articles which are written forms of knowledge — though i would estimate 5-7% of these save-for-later items to consist of recipes i will never make — because i wanted to know everything. haha. life was great as a fearless, arrogant teenager. nowadays i sometimes spiral thinking about the things i could never know.