I’ve been using the Pocket Autodata Integration to great effect. When minding a backlog, an important aspect is tuning the slope. I.e. is the backlog growing or shrinking with the current slope.
It would help if the auto-entered Pocket datapoints included the number of items in “saves” (formerly “my list”) in the comment, maybe something like this:
A Brief Introduction to Icon [243 saves; auto-entered by Pocket]
That would make it abundantly clear how the backlog is progressing and would make it easy to locally post-process the datapoints if one wanted a historical graph of the backlog size.
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It turned out to be pretty easy to automate this, using dance.pl + WWW::Pocket.
$handler{'ianminds/pocket'} = sub {
my $comment = param('comment');
my $id = param('id');
my $pocket = 'auto-entered via Pocket';
if ($comment =~ /\[$pocket\]$/i) {
# get the number of saves
my @saves = qx/ pocket list /;
my $n = @saves;
$comment =~ s/\[$pocket\]$/[$n saves; $pocket]/i;
system( "curl -k --silent -X PUT \"https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/users/ianminds/goals/pocket/datapoints/${id}.json\" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
\"auth_token\": \"$TOKEN\",
\"comment\": \"$comment\"
}'" );
}
};
Still would be nice to have this built-in. Like the first post if you agree
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As a secondary RFE: I also have a lot of datapoints where Pocket failed to extract a useful title. These show up as [Auto-entered via Pocket]
(with initial space). It would be nice if there were a fallback to using the URL, like https://blog.beeminder.com/indulge/ [Auto-entered via Pocket]
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