I run GPT on a cronjob to summarize my twitter timeline for me. I'm sure it's not perfect, but it catches a lot
What?
Awesome loving that.
Will keep this workflow in mind when personal gpt models are out.
Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
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Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#22I cram everything that has an RSS feed into https://kindle4rss.com/ where I can read the feeds daily as an ebook on my kindle (including HN Best). WhatsApp / Telegram cover my "real-time" needs. Most important for me is to have digital wellbeing limits configured for social media.
Recently stumbled upon https://github.com/piqoni/matcha which is a Go RSS reader with a GPT-3 option for summarizing certain RSS feeds.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#23I have this exact problem! About a year ago I built https://fetcher.page which fetches updates for me every 10 minutes or so, filters the ones I've already seen, and then notifies me of new updates.
It's not perfect, but at least I thought reopen 5 websites like 50 times a day.
I rebranded it as a social listening platform a couple months ago, but one can still use it for its initial purpose. Let me know if you find this useful, can grant free access.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#24I run GPT on a cronjob to summarize my twitter timeline for me. I'm sure it's not perfect, but it catches a lot
Care to share the script code?
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#25Via RSS, I visit this little aggregated news page: https://plaintruthpoems.com/rss/JDsNewsFeeds.php
Nice! I need to set something up like this.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#26Too many.
From the top of my head: HN, Twitter, imgur, LI, WhatsApp.
All via web, no apps, no notfications.
I tried blocking most of the sites via /etc/hosts but what is a sudo password against my FOMO...
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#27I have 4 main sites in Livemarks on my browser:
- BBC News
- Ars Tech
- HN
- (local newspaper for my area)
I don't really checkin - more just click on the dropdown to see if there is anything interesting randomly throughout the day.
My wife looks at a lot of news sites, so I figure she will fill me in on anything else - I have breaking news alerts on for BBC on my phone, but I've found recently it's more just standard news than "breaking"
The only notifications I have on for my phone are BBC breaking news and whatsapp. (And Teams during work hours). Everything else can wait until I want to look.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#28I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like:
Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss)
Journals: professional journals in my field
Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, weather blogs, etc. (all have RSS feeds)
Industry: industry news from various podcasts, institutional blogs, regulator blogs, other subreddits reddits
Global news: RSS feeds from my local big city newspaper
Software news: Cloudflare status reports, release note blogs from my favorite softwares
Work: rss feeds from github on some work repos.
Then I come to HN and Twitter directly as well... (shame)
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#29If HN's your problem, check out the noprocrast feature in your profile to force yourself to take a break.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#30I've built a once a day news digest to try and eliminate some of the doom scrolling and non-stop attention seeking.
Other than that HN, Reddit, and recently Artifact. Though Artifact's algorithm encourages doom scrolling.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131