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+title = "Sharing Daily Links"
+date = 2020-03-03
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["meta", "links", "sharing"]
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+I'm changing the way I share links around the web.
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+
+For a while, I used my [Mastodon
+Account](https://functional.cafe/@juliobiason) to share interesting links from
+different subjects.
+
+Today I decided to change that.
+
+From now on, instead of sharing links directly on the microblogging site, I'll
+make one post per day[^1] with links for different subjects that I collect
+around the web. The difference between those two, besides the fact that I used
+to post one toot[^2] per link and now it will be a post with several links, is
+that I'll add some small information about the link itself or its content.
+
+In case you're wondering why the change, the reason is that I realized it is
+way better to `grep` the content of this blog than using the search feature of
+DayOne, which collects all the toots I do.
+
+{% note() %}
+Just to explain how I collect those links:
+
+1. I favourite toots and some tweets;
+2. Every morning, I run [downfav](https://git.juliobiason.me/downfav.git/) to
+   collect those toots and save them locally;
+3. A small Python script (which I want to replace at some point) uploads the
+   saved texts to my [Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/);
+4. I check a specific Notebook (the one the Python script uploads things to)
+   for things that have links;
+5. I click the links, which open a tab on Firefox;
+6. Repeat 4 till all links have been clicked;
+7. Read posts;
+8. If interesting, make a toot.
+
+The step I'm changing is the 8th: Instead of making a toot for each link, I'm
+going to start a blog post, add every interesting link, add a comment about it
+(something missing in the previous flow) and then post everything.
+{% end %}
+
+---
+
+[^1]: People who remember "Delicious" (or "De.li.cio.us") may remember that it
+  had a feature that it will make a post on a WordPress install with the links
+  you captured the day before. This is basically me resurrecting this, but in
+  a manual form.
+
+[^2]: For those who don't know Mastodon, a "toot" is a post, kinda like
+  Twitter calls its posts "tweets".