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Help Automating My Internet Consumption (PROJECT)
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Hi everyone,
I'm thinking of a somewhat ambitious "project" using IFTTT (at least this is my initial idea) that'll hopefully help me stay away from the internet as much as possible so I don't waste time on it. Basically, I'm looking to "automate" my internet consumption, meaning that I'd like to select the content and information that I KNOW is of my interest (so anything besides it that's just plain entertainment is excluded). The way I want to do that is by following the various artists/creators whose content I love (be it musicians, book authors, internet personalities, comedians, etc.), and get notified on the stuff they release and only that so I don't miss out on things. That would mean choosing which social media site I prefer to follow them on (so, for example, if one of these artists is too active on Twitter and shitposts all day I could decide to follow them on Facebook instead, where they might post less often and only for the important stuff), or even just subscribing to their newsletter in case they have one.
Anyway, so the reason why I've thought about using IFTTT for this is to be able to get all of these notifications (meaning whatever artists tweet or post on social media) in one place and at a certain hour everyday, this way I can have this little window of time each day to check them out so that I don't have to be online for the rest of the day (I've thought about using Email Digest for this, but I'm not sure how I'd have to do it in order for everything to be on the SAME email).
This is the basis of my plan, however, I think there's various things places where I'd need some kind of improvements in order for this to work well. I worry that if I only follow people who I already like I'll be missing out on new content that I could be interested in as well. My main intention is to keep using the internet as a place to find interesting, worthy content (actual art if you may), as I've been doing so far, but without having to spend all the time I'd usually have to in order to end up stumbling upon it. For this, I'm trying to think of a way of getting good recommendations based on the type of content I like, and having them included in this daily email with the other notifications, or maybe in a separate one, but in a way so that they're all in the same place and I'm not required to manually "search" for them on the Internet until I stumble upon them. Problem, I don't have any idea of how to do this.
Let me put a pair of examples to better illustrate this "recommendations" thing that I'm trying to get at. I've been a fan of Donald Glover for a while now, and I'm really into his show Atlanta. Now, there's this new movie called "Sorry To Bother You" that features Lakeith Stanfeild, one of the main actors in Atlanta, and which I've been really interested in since I saw the trailer. I was basically wasting time doing nothing online until I somehow found it. Another example would be Adult Swim, which I recently discovered (again, just by spending time on the internet until I stumbled upon one of their shows by chance). In both of these instances I ended up finding stuff that was truly of my interest, but only by first wasting a bunch of time on the Internet that I could've spent doing something else. So yeah, this is the part that gets tricky, cause I'd like to be able to automate this process of finding new interesting content while being away from the Internet.
I know this has been a pretty long post, but ultimately I just wanted to ask for advice in various ways I could improve and better use IFTTT for this purpose, specially for the part of getting recommended content (I'm completely lost as to how to do it, I'm guessing there might some kind of web service that does that and which can be used along with IFTTT?), and also in how to get all of the notifications in just one Email Digest. Any other tips, however, would also be much appreciated. I think there might be more than a few people interested in using this system for automating their internet consumption as well, and if a few can get together in the comments and discuss the best way to do it that could end up being beneficial to everyone.
Thanks a lot, have a good day.
TL;DR: I want to create a system using IFTTT with Email Digest to automate my media consumption of artists/creators I like as well as getting recommendations of new content I could be interested in so that I don't have to waste as much time on the Internet while still not missing out on stuff. I need advice and tips on the best way to do it, since I already have the basis of my plan but not much more.
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July 28, 2018 at 12:55PM