More or less on a whim, I kept track of every single thing I read – online or off; blog post, newspaper article, magazine essay, or book; for work or pleasure or by accident – during August 2011. You can find the complete rundown on my Tumblr blog, My Reading List. Two takeaways:
- I needed about half the month to acquire the habit of plugging everything into this blog, but after that, doing so became second nature – so much so that I unthinkingly added a few new items even after the month ended.
- Jotting down a few words about each read item became an immense help to remembering the details of each piece. The effect was miraculous.