dailymeh:

Phil Gyford wanted an online newspaper that had less friction, more readability and what he calls “finishability”:

Finally, I wanted finishability. I wanted to be able to read today’s news, know I’d read it all, and that I’m done until tomorrow. Again, this is not too difficult if you’re willing to accept that the contents of the print newspaper is a reasonable solution.

So he built Today’s Guardian. I really like it: simple, clutter-free, easy to read, and it doesn’t assume the reader is stupid. It makes things simpler by taking away choice: at every article, you can basically go forward or backwards, and that’s it, like flipping pages in a real newspaper. And it works, too. I’m ok with fewer choices when it makes things easier and it’s only one of several ways to get things done. You can still read the Guardian in paper form or on their own cluttered website.

I can see this kind of navigation working great for online magazines and other websites that generally carry longer texts. Stick a small “table of contents” link in the footer or header and you should be golden. I’d try it on this blog, except I think it would be annoying with short texts, and I do tend to be all over the place wrt. post length. One problem I see is permanent links (in Today’s Guardian, there are no permalinks), but I’m sure there’s a solution to that somewhere. (found here)