This content originally appeared on Hidde's blog and was authored by Hidde de Vries
The amount of content on the web is so large, that it's tricky to find the stuff worth reading. One of my strategies is to follow people I trust and read what they share. For anyone with interests similar to mine, I've opened a Links section on this website, too (with it's own RSS feed).
My plan is to publish no more than a couple of links per day (if any). They will mostly be related to technology and/or ethics. I have taken inspiration from many others, like Jeremy's Links section. Mu-An inspired me to use Shortcuts as a tool to create links and notes.
Why?
The reason I want to publish links on this site is mostly for selfish reasons. I've posted links on social media for a long time, but in the black box of algorithms, it's hard to recover them after time passes. I want to at least try and have some sort of system for organising and archive my interests (tags… I'm adding tags).
I also want to try and experiment with shorter, quicker posts.
How: low treshold publishing with a Shortcut
I read mostly on the go, when on public transport or waiting for an appointment. This means I usually am not logged into a CMS or near a computer where I can do version control. This site doesn't use a CMS, but I have (Markdown) files in version control that I populate a static site from. To appear on my site, links shared would ultimately need to exist as Markdown files in a specific folder.
This is what I wanted for my link sharing system:
- Very minimal effort
- Should work on all devices
- Should draft a note with both currently selected text and a link to the page, named after that page
- Should also include the current date in the draft and let me title the note
- Should place my draft somewhere that I can move to my site quickly
What I ended up with is an Apple Shortcut that takes the current text selection, page name and page URL on a given page in Safari and creates a blob of text with current date, selection and link prefilled. When I run it while in Safari, a popup opens with something like this prefilled:
---
tags: []
date: 2024-01-10
---
> // Selected text
(From: [Name of the page](link to the page))I can then write some context around the link, optionally add a comma-separated list of tags and then save the file. The filename becomes YYYY-MM-DD-.md, where I can write a title for the post after the date. My site generator grabs that title from the file name.
At the time of writing, I haven't figured out how to then get this file in git, so I save it in a specific folder, requiring me to manually drag it into my site whenever I do reach a computer. That works fine for now, I don't write that many anyway.
Summing up
I'm looking forward to continue doing this for a while, and hope the low treshold publishing will make it so easy that I actually will. Check out /links to find out what I've posted so far.
Originally posted as Sharing links on Hidde's blog.
This content originally appeared on Hidde's blog and was authored by Hidde de Vries
Hidde de Vries | Sciencx (2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00) Sharing links. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2024/01/12/sharing-links/
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