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This sounds exactly like Read It Later. I don't know what the differences are between the two, but it's an alternative if you're looking for something like this. Anyway, my experience with this sort of thing is that I never feel like reading all the momentarily-interesting things I discover when I come back to them later. I think that by putting it off, you place reading about an interesting idea into the "this is something you want to put off for later" mind category and it never gets read, or at least that's what it felt like in my experience.
Read It Later used to (further) ruin my attention span until I uninstalled it. I would only read blog snippets and forum posts which were too short to bother delaying, whereas substantial articles and papers all ended up RIL'd into oblivion.
Do you like that it's this way, or would you rather that you got around to reading the stuff?
I can't speak for jferguson, but I use Read It Later, and have had the same experience---and prefer it. Being able to decide whether or not I want to read something after I've put it off once is much less stressful, and I read less of the things that I don't really care about.
Agreed; it contextualizes the saved bits of information, a lot of times the outcome is not reading them - which is a WIN!
There was a fair amount of stuff in there that I "knew" I wanted to read (some LW sequences stuff among them). I've found a bit more success by putting things I actually want to read in my top-level bookmarks, right at the front, because then it causes clutter which I want to reduce (by reading and removing them). The difference may just be in that I'm less likely to bookmark something with this system in the first place, but it feels like it works.