Triaging your literature queue by the time you actually have.
Not every saved link belongs in your permanent citation manager. Use My Minute Mix as the reading buffer before Zotero — clearing commentaries, preprints, and talks in structured daily sessions.
- Article · 12 min
- Video · 15:00
- Article · 8 min
- Thread · 5 min
- Article · 6 min
- Video · 28:00
Size a session. From a sample researchers library.
Pick how many minutes you have. The queue packs the closest fit without going over — tap a row to tick it off.
Illustrative titles. In the app you pick 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes — or set your own.
Read first, cite second. Stop polluting your permanent reference library with things you haven’t read yet.
Why saved lists pile up for researchers
Researchers come across dozens of blog commentaries, conference talks, and adjacent preprints every week. Dumping unread links straight into a citation manager creates a graveyard of unread references.
Without duration metadata, short methodological notes get buried underneath 45-minute keynote videos.
How a time-first queue works instead
- Keep a clean triage buffer of articles and talks you intend to read this week.
- Automatic word-count and video-length detection separates 5-minute research summaries from 30-minute deep dives.
- Background link-health checks quietly flag dead 404/410 pages so they are left out of future mixes.
Not quite you? Nine more playbooks.
Size your pile before you start.
Your saved internet,
mixed for the time you have.
Save articles, videos and threads in one click, then finish them in the minutes between everything else. Free, no paid tier.