All highly efficient and effective people keep reading lists. As proof of this, I don't keep one and I'm highly inefficient and ineffective (just ask anybody who knows me). But trying out the Readeroo Firefox plugin described in Perwari's post Need Something To Read? , I just might start using one!

This is a reading list for web sites. It's a simple plugin that uses your del.icio.us account (sign up for one if you don't have one already) to manage a list of web sites you'd like to mark for later reading. The plugin adds two buttons to your browser menu, one for marking pages 'to read' and the other one for pulling up one of these sites when you find some time to read.

So it's a quick way to just file sites in a 'to read' file and makes it very easy to call them up when you have some time for reading, no muss, no fuss.

The options dialog for the plugin lets you modify the tags it uses for marking links as 'toread' and 'donereading', lets you choose whether the sites on your list are marked public or private (yes, you can save that blog post about unsightly elbow hair without fear of embarrassment), and you can also choose what order it sorts the links in (ie. in what order they'll be pulled back out for you to read).

I've tried maintaining a reading list before pseudo-manually using bookmarks etc. but I never seem to keep up with it. The simplicity and automation of this solution might finally make it stick.