diff --git a/content/thoughts/daily-links.md b/content/thoughts/daily-links.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3eed379 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/thoughts/daily-links.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ ++++ +title = "Sharing Daily Links" +date = 2020-03-03 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["meta", "links", "sharing"] ++++ + +I'm changing the way I share links around the web. + + + +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".