Scrapbox look-back function

2021-08-06 One click generates the following page Intended use.

• Click on the menu whenever you feel like it
• View generated pages
  • Follow the link if you want to follow it.
    • If you want to rewrite the link, rewrite it.
    • I won’t rewrite it, but if you want to comment on it, you can write a comment on this look back page like “I used to write this, but…”
      • They may look at multiple links and find relationships.
      • If you want to write it and then title it further and make it a stand-alone page, do so.
  • If you see something and don’t feel like taking action, delete link.
    • Maybe this is important
    • If you don’t do this, you’ll have more meaningless links and your Scrapbox will become a garbage dump.
  • I think you should remove the links, even the ones that rewrite the page you linked to.
    • Because there’s not much point in information that says, “I looked back at this day in retrospect.”
  • Ideally, this look-back page should be used as a temporary home for the information generated by the look-back, and the page should eventually scatter and disappear.
    • If you can’t find a good place to stay, you have no choice but to stay here, like Nodes of Thought.

Comparison with previous version [ScrapboxSRS

• I think we used to give out too many links.
  • It would be a burden to see it all.
  • There was an unnecessarily large amount of other information.
  • I hadn’t seen them in three years, and I was like, “No, there’s too many of them.”
• Interpretation of the meaning of the score is difficult and not good.
  • So I made it “100 days ago”, “1 year ago”, and “n years ago”.
    • n years ago” is anything other than one year ago that is a near multiple of one year.
• I made each section three.
  • I think about 9 3x3’s is about right. This is the intention.

I used it. - Reflections on “2021-08-05 Reflection”

[/takker/Scrapbox lookback feature#610c18a51280f00000ed3fc3](https://scrapbox.io/takker/Scrapbox lookback feature#610c18a51280f00000ed3fc3).

• I changed the external project link notation so that the link does not appear in the related pages list even if the link remains.

  • I see

2021-08-06 script.js

const LINE_PER_SECTION = 3;
const day = 60 * 60 * 24 * 1000;
const year = day * 365;
 
const project_name = scrapbox.Project.name;
const project_root = `https://scrapbox.io/${project_name}`;
const menu_title = "Looking Back";.
const make_title = () => `${strftime(new Date())}${menu_title}`;
 
// score: 0 is best
const sections = [
  {
    title: "100 days ago",.
    score: (diff) => Math.abs(diff - 100 * day),
  },
  {
    title: "1 year ago",.
    score: (diff) => Math.abs(diff - year),
  },
  {
    title: "n years ago",.
    score: (diff) => {
      // excludes 1 year ago
      if (diff < year * 1.5) {
        return year;
      }
      const mod = diff % year;
      return Math.min(mod, year - mod);
    },
  },
];
 
const main = () => {
  // calc scores
  const now = Date.now();
  const scored_pages = [];
  scrapbox.Project.pages.forEach((page) => {
    const updated = page.updated;
    if (updated === 0) return;
    const diff = now - updated * 1000;
    const p = { ...page };
    sections.forEach((sction) => {
      p[sction.title] = sction.score(diff);
    });
    scored_pages.push(p);
  });
 
  // generate page contents
  const lines = [];
  sections.forEach((section) => {
    scored_pages.sort((a, b) => a[section.title] - b[section.title]);
    lines.push(section.title);
    scored_pages.slice(0, LINE_PER_SECTION).forEach((page) => {
      const title = page["title"];
      const date = strftime(new Date(page.updated * 1000));
      lines.push(` ${date} [${title}]`);
    });
    lines.push("");
  });
  create_page(make_title(), lines);
};
 
function create_page(title, lines) {
  const body = encodeURIComponent(lines.join("\n"));
  window.open(`${project_root}/${title}?body=${body}`);
}
 
function pad(number) {
  if (number < 10) {
    return "0" + number;
  }
  return number;
}
 
function strftime(d) {
  return (
    d.getUTCFullYear() +
    "-" +
    pad(d.getUTCMonth() + 1) +
    "-" +
    pad(d.getUTCDate())
  );
}
 
const WAIT = { title: "Please wait...", image: null, onClick: () => null };
const onClick = () => {
  scrapbox.PageMenu(menu_title).addItem(WAIT);
  main();
  scrapbox.PageMenu(menu_title).removeAllItems();
};
 
scrapbox.PageMenu.addMenu({
  title: menu_title,
  image: "https://gyazo.com/11140c8b35b407c5d490a94ec6f2528f/raw",
  onClick,
});

old version

• 2018-05-25
  • ScrapboxSRS
  • [/customize/“this day in the past” function](https://scrapbox.io/customize/“this day in the past” function).

orthographical variants - Reflection (Scrapbox)

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