Bookmarks that come back
I started working on a new bookmark manager tonight using the Hanakai toolset. It comprises the Hanami framework, Dry validation library and the Rom persistence toolkit.
This little project has two goals. The first is to learn Hanakai. Ruby on Rails is a reliable web framework, and I’ve used it for over 15 years, but I want to try something different. The second is to try something different with a bookmark manager. Instead of just saving bookmarks and forgetting about them, I’m going to try to build a bookmark manager that resurfaces bookmarks over time. It will do this on a schedule and based on bookmarks that fit the criteria for being resurfaced. The idea is that, over time, you’ll weed out anything that isn’t relevant and be left with only the bookmarks that matter.
I initially envisioned this as an email workflow, but I’m going to keep it simple and display the decision in the web app. Email would have meant building the sending infrastructure, but I didn’t want to deal with that this weekend.
The fundamentals are already in place. I will be dipping in and out of this over the weekend with a view to having something to deploy on Sunday night. The final decision screen will be for me only, but I’ll follow this blog post with more information on how I got on.