A Page A Day0

Posted by Bru June 2, 2004 4:58 PM

I realized recently that I'm definitely not the only one thinking and designing about the idea of a "personal *** management".

Today, I came across this entry by Matt Webb:


Matt Webb

I want to read the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, but there are 1,565 pages and I have too much else to read. At a page a day it would take a little over four years, but be manageable.

So I knocked this up: Day-by-day Da Vinci. There's an RSS feed to subscribe to which carries a new page every day (and some recent ones too). You can read along with me or start from page 1 whenever you like. It's only the text, but Good Enough I think. I'm hoping to find some hidden gems.

This immediately lit a candle in my head, for that was just another of the stem cells of the p*m thing that's buzzing in my head (and slowly becoming reality):
more specifically, this time the perfect acronym could be a progressive learning manager.

So i coded up pageaday.pl as a proof of concept.
By now it still very basic: no embedded html, no backlog. It just takes the current day, finds out what is the "page of the day", and creates an rss with just that page in it.
Take a look at the generated RSS for an idea of both these limitations.
More to come, so stay tuned! :)

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  1. Less pages a day From All things BruJune 18, 2004 7:56 PM
    Updates on experiment of progressive learning through syndication of books... ... but I found it's not working as expected: I can't understand if it's just a matter of motivation. I think there's also a "urgency" variable to take into account: Basicall...
  2. How do you want research results to be shared? From MathemagenicJuly 12, 2004 1:57 PM
    I'm struggling with something and need your thoughts.