Thread by @houshuang

You guys have got to stop encouraging me... I've got actual work to do :( Demo of RSS feed reader inside @roamresearch, reads a list of URLs from your graph, fetches RSS, parses, and inserts title and content of three lasts posts. Total proof of concept...

If you actually wanted to build this as a real thing, would want to think about checking which articles already exist, to add new ones only, as well as parsing of content (right now just dumps a blob of HTML), and many other things.

Also not convinced it's a good idea to import tons of content into your Roam graph at the moment. But some day it will be (I'm pretty sure, I want to keep my life there), so worth it to begin playing.

I began thinking of this when I saw an interesting blog post, and thought that although I have Feedly, I never visit... Perhaps could do something with a button - pull in a few headlines to my daily pages, with a button to pull in/paste in the formatted body.

(I had the same issues with SRS - never managed to establish an Anki routine, but when it's on my daily pages, or using Roam Husk, I do it)...

Also amazing how quickly you can try some things out - this idea had literally never crossed my mind until - checks watch - 2 hours ago.

https://twitter.com/houshuang/status/1353049481273462784

Now, proof of concept, actual running code in Roam, and a small demo video...

If it's so easy now, with the super primitive tools we have, imagine when you combine the best no-code tool UIs, Yahoo Pipes (resurrected from the grave), vastly more powerful Roam APIs and introspection (IDE style)... A REPL for your thoughts, and for your information...

Other than some setup which I had already, and some open source libraries, it's 40 lines of code. Which could have been further simplified and cleaned up.