From 8b7860752dc18dd593f9cc81b8cfd9b1dc1ead31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan-Erik Rediger Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 11:54:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] new post: my Instapaper stats. --- .../2012-05-08-my-instapaper-stats.markdown | 45 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2012-05-08-my-instapaper-stats.markdown diff --git a/_posts/2012-05-08-my-instapaper-stats.markdown b/_posts/2012-05-08-my-instapaper-stats.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f55f4f --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-05-08-my-instapaper-stats.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: my instapaper stats +date: 08.05.2012 11:33 +--- + +I am an actively user of the great [Instapaper](http://www.instapaper.com/) +service. Instapaper is a great tool to save web articles for reading later. +Even since I got my [Kindle 4](http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0051QVF7A/ref=tb_surl_kindle) +back in December I let Instapaper sent each and every article I saved directly +to it right in the morning. The first thing I do when I wakeup is starting the +kindle to get the new issue so I can read it at breakfast. + +Before I had the Kindle I had to read all saved articles on the PC (or my +Smartphone) where the reading experience really sucks for long articles. My +workflow was much different and I deleted most read articles instead of marking +them as "read". But since I use the Kindle for reading I always archive old +articles. + +Back in February I started to get some statistics on how much I really read +(and yes, every article saved to my Instapaper accout I actually read), so here +is my nice graph: + +![Instapaper stats](http://tmp.fnordig.de/2012-05-08-instapaper-stats.png) + +I started with 54 saved articles and I am now up to 234 articles. That makes +180 new articles read in just 77 days (my graph starts on 21.02.). + +Most of the articles are coming from [Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/) +and my twitter stream (maybe I should start some more statistics on the topics +and which language I read most) + +I use a simple script executed via cronjob to fetch the list of articles from +Instapaper, but more on that later (I have to cleanup the script and then I can +release it). + +------- + +P.S.: + +If you're wondering what the 3 lines on the bottom of the graph are: the green +one is the "Starred"-line (currently at 11 articles), the blue one is the +unread count (mostly between 0-5 articles per day) and the purple line is the +"saved"-folder (8 articles, which contains non-article links and is now more or less +superflous as I have a [Pinboard-Account](http://pinboard.in/u:badboy))