Closed swyxio closed 2 years ago
Think about Personal Index Page as a Collaborative Canvas, - where as a user you collaborate with automated service, - keeping it updated based on your interests.
Just paste links to blogs you are following in appropriate areas on the canvas.
Then new articles from all the sources will be streamed directly into your canvas in parallel.
My implementation is based on excalidraw:
try tldraw for that - not yet launched but it will be more pluggable and updatable than excalidraw
slug: smart-indexes title: What if your Index Page was Smart? description: Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
One thing I don't like about most blogs (company and personal) is that their index pages tend to be unappealing reverse chronological lists of links. Basically nobody visits your blog index out of habit, especially if you rarely blog, because the content never changes. So then you build a newsletter, and Twitter presence, to notify/publicize when you do have new stuff out.
This seems ass backwards. But is the overwhelming norm.
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
So what would a Smart Index look like?
What this basically ends up looking like is a "personal data warehouse". This is handrolled by a few brave enthusiasts now, but could be more of a product if someone out there chose to build it.
Hmm...