Opening about 10+ tabs and filing articles I may never read is a daily occurrence when I get on the internet without an agenda.

This has gone on for years without a single ounce of remorse. The only thing that fuels me to continue is my own gullibility that I might actually go back and read them one day. Hah!

I will say there is hope for me every now and again when I clean up and organize all the pictures I save to my desktop background. However, the only reason I go back, read, and organize those is because they tend to cover my beautiful background. But I digress…

Today, I decided to try a new experiment by focusing on one article at a time and consciously address it in a way that would make me happy. This could mean either filing it to read again at a later date, making notes on the most important parts of the article, or moving on from it without having gleaned much.

The results of this experiment were good enough to give a go again tomorrow. Not only was I more relaxed while reading articles, I found that I was less ADD from having to slow down. This took me a second to be able to calm down because the brain is so used to flying through articles at blistering speeds.

So to sit there calmly, enjoy each interesting article I read, and glean double the amount of information I would catch reading articles at my “normal” speed was refreshing. I also thought to create more specific folders in which to place them to make them easier to locate when or if I ever decide to go back and reread them.

My dream one day is to go back, reread all the important articles I saved, and list all the most important information from them with the intent to delete the articles in an effort to clear bookmark space. I want to keep my digital home clean just like my physical one but nobody taught us how to clean thoroughly in Internet 101. I suppose you have to grow up in a digital sense to be conscious enough to go back and clean out your saved items.