Reading List Manager

The Reading List Manager skill helps you curate, track, and extract value from your reading across books, articles, essays, and research papers. Rather than letting reading materials pile up in browser tabs and forgotten bookmarks, this skill provides a structured system for managing your reading pipeline and capturing key insights.

This skill applies principles from "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler, Zettelkasten note-taking methods, and spaced repetition learning to help you not just read more, but retain and apply what you read. It helps you prioritize what to read next, track progress, capture highlights, and synthesize insights across multiple sources.

The system distinguishes between different reading types—deep reading for understanding, scanning for information, and recreational reading for pleasure—and provides appropriate tracking and note-taking frameworks for each.

Core Workflows

Workflow 1: Add to Reading List

Capture new reading materials:

1. Source Capture: Title, author, type (book/article/paper)
2. Context Recording: Why you want to read this, who recommended it
3. Priority Assessment: How urgent/important is this?
4. Category Tagging: Topic area, reading type
5. Time Estimation: Approximate reading time
6. List Placement: Add to appropriate queue