Today I tried a different way of generating files for the links.
Before:
- On phone: Save link to pocket, add tags
- On computer: run linksync script to convert pocket api links into markdown files with title/tags
- fix up title and filenames and metadata
- git add
This has been working ok for years, but had some downsides.
Pocket parses the titles and chooses filenames, not always correctly.
And I had 50+ tabs open on my phone, going through one at a time to add tags was a lot of touchscreens.
What I did instead:
- in Firefox went to "Share all links"
- initially did copy/paste, but found that Share with Obsidian can automatically paste to the end of a file
- Made the script more computer friendly. Removed the pocket sync parts, just kept the add-link part (generate markdown file from template). Type out titles and tags manually, generate filename from title and some other cleanup in the script. Improve the script conversation.
Couple of lessons from this:
- if there are 2 steps for a process, make 1 tiny
- some things are much faster on a computer, don't waste time trying to do them on phone.