truman-show VS epub-wordcount

https://specularrealms.com

The site doesn't have a particularly stylistic design, and my writing tends to focus on theistics and cognitive philosophy.

The physiological constraints of free will

I got sick of having to open a new tab, navigate to google images, type in my search just to find a quick one off image. Having to do that dozens of times was really taking me out of my workflow.

I wrote a windows app that lets you quickly search google images and copy the original image to your clipboard for ease of use when chatting or if you need to paste a quick image into a document you are working on. It's GPL-3 in GitHub:

https://github.com/scpedicini/truman-show

Thank you for the kind words!

I find the Goodreads UI _incredibly_ busy. Here's what I saw when I logged in just now: https://cdn.zappy.app/76d7cba6b409f0aa9310214401d11db9.png

It's nice to see what my friends are reading, but it's always trying to recommend me books, sell me things, etc. It makes sense (it's why Amazon bought them) but it I found it mostly got in the way of what I wanted out of it- a spreadsheet with pre-filled information. Also it's dumb, but I wanted to rate books on a 4-point scale, and theirs is out of 5.

I used to use a gSheet for this (with columns for title, author, day start/end, and review), but I wanted a way to source rich info. So I combined Zapier, the google books API, and an npm package I wrote to count the words in an epub (https://github.com/xavdid/epub-wordcount/) and fed all that info into Airtable. It sounds like a lot of work, but I set it up years ago and it's been happily humming along.

Now I have exactly the tracking system I want, and it's not at the whim of decisions on any product roadmaps.