This was an excellent read and it resonates with me a lot.
I have written here before[1] about the tyranny of "read it later" apps and how liberating it felt to ditch them and move to a "read it now or read it never" (RINORIN) mindset.
Although this articles talks about digital ephemera in different contexts such as shared spaces, wikis, runbooks etc., I believe the underlying idea is the same.