Don't create pages mechanically.

Scrapbox Drinkup 20180810 topics at the reception.

• If you create a page mechanically.

  • Different compared to other pages
  • It doesn’t even have a link.
  • A large number of pages are generated information flood.

• Spoiling the fun because of

• It’s important to write your own and link to it yourself.

• When I first started Scrapbox, I tried importing from Twitter and from my blog (Hatena Diary).

• It wasn’t good enough, so I deleted the whole project.

• On the other hand, I can’t shake the feeling that some of those contents may be beneficial

• From Facebook, the “This day in the past” feature shows past content, and I look at it and reprint what I think “I should reprint this in Scrapbox.

• Importing from Twitter and blogs should be done a little at a time over the course of a year or so.

• There should be a system to support this.

• How to achieve this

• Create one miscellaneous project to import from Twitter or blog

• Tag only the month and day part of the year, month, and day of the “Posting Date” of what you imported there.

• That way, pages of the same month and date are grouped together.

  • I made a “this day in the past” feature in Scrapbox before: Experiment with changing the sort order in Scrapbox.

• I wonder if clipping the web, etc., once put into that “messy project where the mechanically imported stuff goes” would be enough.

• I guess I clipped something like this a year ago, and it becomes

• Scrapbox’s philosophy is against such mechanical imports, so there is no API to post pages without a browser.

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