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Life & fun · February 2, 2011

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Because most of us suffer from AD(H)D, here is too-long-didnt-read.com

Hey HN crowd! Two days ago I realized I'm almost unable to read a book or a long article without getting distracted by Twitter/HN/Reddit/Work. The situation is so terrible, I'm even getting afraid of big articles, and my ReadItLater list is getting pretty long (shameful I know) ... and I'm pretty sure most of you are in this situation :) Being used to TL;DRs on long reddit posts, I thought it would be great to have these for everything, so I quickly hacked this website: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/ Here is an example of TL;DR: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/5tropy I would love to…

Because most of us suffer from AD(H)D, here is too-long-didnt-read.com launched on February 2, 2011 with 7 votes, #59 of 163 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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