Random posts

I’ve been slowly migrating my notes from Obsidian to Tana, and part of that involves essentially visiting every blog post on here again (inside of my notes) to get things properly tagged. It’ll be wildly useful when I’m done, but it’s rather tedious right now.

However, I’m getting a lot of value out of seeing those old posts again. There are a handful of old posts that I reference fairly often, but most posts are published and forgotten. This process has brought them back to light, and it’s been great.

I wanted to find a system kind of like Readwise that would take all of my posts and show me a random one every time I asked. As far as I can tell that system doesn’t exist, but please correct me if I’m wrong.

Instead, I had ChatGPT write me a simple WordPress plugin that does the trick, and it’s great! You can check it out here if you’re curious; every time you refresh the page, it shows another random post from my archive.

If I’m logged into the site, I also get a button on the screen that allows me to exclude that particular post from coming up again. There are a lot of posts on the site that are worth keeping on here but aren’t as valuable for me to revisit (like “new” WordPress features from years ago, or the various “Sunday Summary” posts). I’ll see them once, and then it’ll hide them going forward. The button just looks like this:

ChatGPT to write code

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