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I really like the personal homepage idea. Reminds me of the iGoogle days. Anyone know any products / tools to create a simple one consisting of essentially an

by jclay 8y ago

I really like the personal homepage idea. Reminds me of the iGoogle days. Anyone know any products / tools to create a simple one consisting of essentially an organized collection of links? I guess any static site generator could work, but would be nice to have an out of the box theme and can show RSS Feeds.

joshbuchea 8y ago
Doesn't have a theme or ability to show RSS feeds but... I built an open-source Chrome extension I call SwiftTab for creating a custom page of links from my Bookmarks Bar (or a folder named "_Swift") https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/swifttab/poikmgendcdljfoaelblkdjehmpedjif https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/swifttab/poikmgend... Source code is @ https://github.com/joshbuchea/chrome-ext-swifttab https://github.com/joshbuchea/chrome-ext-swifttab
davchana 8y ago
Google Chrome shows tiles of your most visited links. In mine, HN is first one.
- mikemotherwell 8y ago
  Problem is it includes distractions. A personal homepage would be better focussed on things I SHOULD do, rather than things I actually do.
steerpike 8y ago
You might like Netvibes. I've been using it for over a decade and it's still fantastic. https://www.netvibes.com/ https://www.netvibes.com/
- bendotero 8y ago
  Haven't heard that name in ages. Thanks for the reminder.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Wow, I'd love something like this, but that would incorporate my social media into background stream of super-compacted, mostly-text events. Think of being on a Slack channel (in Compact mode), where the only things that are posted are messages from your Facebook timeline, e-mail, HN stories, replies to your HN comments, new IM threads etc. Also, you could pin stuff you care about, and with one click/keyboard press, everything else gets cleared. Alas, I don't think Facebook in particular allows for such deep integration with one's feed - because yes, that would essentially replace me the facebook website/app.
abhiyerra 8y ago
I've been using Dropbox Paper and you can extend this AWS Lambda script I wrote that uses Dropbox Paper to generates a webpage to include RSS: https://gist.github.com/abhiyerra/7dcd96741cf98a1823da91f32b50020d https://gist.github.com/abhiyerra/7dcd96741cf98a1823da91f32b...
homoiconic 8y ago
I just started using Notion (https://notion.so https://notion.so) for organizing to-do lists, links, notes, and reminders. It's simple yet amazingly flexible. I highly recommend it.
codemac 8y ago
I just created my own chrome extension, and an html file for the new tab page: https://github.com/codemac/config/tree/master/chrome https://github.com/codemac/config/tree/master/chrome Currently, I have a cronjob that greps my todo files in org mode, and puts the currently scheduled task below a picture of General Sherman.

by jclay 8y ago

joshbuchea 8y ago

Doesn't have a theme or ability to show RSS feeds but... I built an open-source Chrome extension I call SwiftTab for creating a custom page of links from my Bookmarks Bar (or a folder named "_Swift") https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/swifttab/poikmgendcdljfoaelblkdjehmpedjif https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/swifttab/poikmgend... Source code is @ https://github.com/joshbuchea/chrome-ext-swifttab https://github.com/joshbuchea/chrome-ext-swifttab

davchana 8y ago

Google Chrome shows tiles of your most visited links. In mine, HN is first one.

mikemotherwell 8y ago
Problem is it includes distractions. A personal homepage would be better focussed on things I SHOULD do, rather than things I actually do.

steerpike 8y ago

You might like Netvibes. I've been using it for over a decade and it's still fantastic. https://www.netvibes.com/ https://www.netvibes.com/

bendotero 8y ago
Haven't heard that name in ages. Thanks for the reminder.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
Wow, I'd love something like this, but that would incorporate my social media into background stream of super-compacted, mostly-text events. Think of being on a Slack channel (in Compact mode), where the only things that are posted are messages from your Facebook timeline, e-mail, HN stories, replies to your HN comments, new IM threads etc. Also, you could pin stuff you care about, and with one click/keyboard press, everything else gets cleared. Alas, I don't think Facebook in particular allows for such deep integration with one's feed - because yes, that would essentially replace me the facebook website/app.

abhiyerra 8y ago

I've been using Dropbox Paper and you can extend this AWS Lambda script I wrote that uses Dropbox Paper to generates a webpage to include RSS: https://gist.github.com/abhiyerra/7dcd96741cf98a1823da91f32b50020d https://gist.github.com/abhiyerra/7dcd96741cf98a1823da91f32b...

homoiconic 8y ago

I just started using Notion (https://notion.so https://notion.so) for organizing to-do lists, links, notes, and reminders. It's simple yet amazingly flexible. I highly recommend it.

codemac 8y ago

I just created my own chrome extension, and an html file for the new tab page: https://github.com/codemac/config/tree/master/chrome https://github.com/codemac/config/tree/master/chrome Currently, I have a cronjob that greps my todo files in org mode, and puts the currently scheduled task below a picture of General Sherman.