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How I built forlater.email, my first big side project
- umvi 5y agoNice, wasn't expecting the Stormlight Archive easter egg
- superasn 5y ago> I plan to implement some kind of settings@ address to configure and store user settings (dark theme? fonts?). However, this introduces state in an otherwise mostly stateless system. I think the subject line can be used for settings while still keeping things stateless, e.g arial dark or like a preset name ad.
- cyberge99 5y agoOr have your mail client or shortcut attach either pre-defined content or a signature to outbound messages destined for this address. Ex Sincerely, &&&setting.darkmode=true&&& Or similar.
- icy 5y agoThat's elegant; the subject field isn't used currently. However, it adds extra work for those who want all their articles in dark mode, or any specific style. I think I'll add support for this anyway. Thanks.
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- blaydator 5y agoEmails are the perfect tool for that, but I got tired of opening my email client to email myself and built an app instead : https://boomerang-app.io https://boomerang-app.io . I am using it mainly to save HN link as well :)
- ohyash 5y agoSounds all good until the email providers start filtering out emails as spam for no reason.
- mongol 5y agoHow well is go-readability working? I was thinking of doing something similar but with Telegram instead.
- icy 5y agoDoes a good job, as good as mozilla/readability.
- ashishb 5y agoI hated Pocket too. I already used RSS reader, so, I ended up building https://reading.ashishb.net https://reading.ashishb.net that creates an RSS feed of articles you add. And yeah, it has a readable mode turned on by default.
- donw 5y agoHow do you handle your text/feature extraction?
- ashishb 5y agoA third party library :)
- ohyash 5y agoAny reason for hating pocket?
- ashishb 5y agoI just want to read. And Not go through social features and other fancy things that distract me from actual reading.
- haraball 5y agoYour app looks great! I'm hacking on something related, so always fun to see new takes in this space. Did you try Instapaper as an alternative to Pocket? No intrusive features, great reading experience. I'm a happy paying customer and user for over a decade now.
- lewisjoe 5y agoGreat one. Planning to write one such for my own service that I built - https://closetab.email https://closetab.email (delivers a weekly digest of bookmarks to my inbox, every monday morning) Because the biggest problem with bookmarking is forgetting it forever after ;)
- ohyash 5y ago+1 on that, I need someone to remind me to read though the articles I've bookmarked in the past.
- feketegy 5y agoI have a side-project in the works for years now, tackling this exact problem, it's called Laters, https://late.rs/ https://late.rs/ It's literally 5 years old now, hopefully I'll finish it next year.
- bronlund 5y agoIn Norwegian 'forlater' means 'leave behind/let go/quit doing' among other things :D Took a couple of seconds before I read that in English.
- d4rkp4ttern 5y agoWould be nice to have a tool that grabs a readable version of an article/link and lets you dump it into your favorite knowledge management tool (Roam, Obsidian, mem, …). Any recommendations for such a tool?
- Wingy 5y agoTrilium[0] has a web clipper A more universal solution would be useful though [0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium https://github.com/zadam/trilium
- antiframe 5y agoI use 'w3m -dump' to keep articles in a directory in my memex.
- d4rkp4ttern 5y agoThis looks great for when I am on desktop. Would love to have a workflow for mobile — e.g i see an article and click the Share button and pick an iOS shortcut or some app on the share sheet that grabs the text content and copies to clipboard , then I dump to my favorite notes app
- ohyash 5y agoI've been sending text html emails for my blogletter for over a year now. The single biggest struggle point is the spam filters in gmail/outlook/others which just render my emails waste for majority of the subscribers. Do you face the same?
- nickspain 5y agoI think I recall from a previous post on HN that they use Mailgun. I can't speak for forlater but at my work we use mailgun because email delivery is a pain, as you've found. Using a third-party service is a lot easier because it's their bread and butter and you can let them worry about it.