Joined 9 years ago
Install ≠ operate
I'm also automating more stuff around bookmarks management -> I used to manage an awesome list as a repository on GitHub for myself and over a couple of years there are relatively many stars on this repository. However I lost interest in maintaining this repo manually as I prefer to save my bookmarks on Shaarli. I'm coding a CLI tool to automate the work of syncing my shaarli links to my public "popular" (+500 stars) repo at https://github.com/SansGuidon/bookmarks
Myself and other users complain a lot about the "native" Plex -> Ombi watchlist integration being broken, I coded some sync tool to workaround the app malfunctions, by using Ombi, Plex and TMDB (The Movie Database) APIs and ensure Ombi is always up-to-date based on Plex watchlist. This works very well and allowed me to put a stop to the complains from my family members :-D
I'm also automating most of my email/linkedin interactions thanks to userscripts. And I keep automating more of the work I do around Cloudron, which is a very fun and stable platform to manage apps on VPS without the pains.
I guess N8N was not intuitive for simple things and seemed too complicated for me. I'm now happier with cron jobs/GitOps to manage my automations. On the other hand I also had to replace some IFTTT workflows with my own scripts.
More work for me but I gained quality and control.
For images, what do you want to grep for? for exif data -> https://exiftool.org/ if you want to find image based content, you might need something smarter. I think maybe it is a place where tools such as https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5 can shine for me. simple enough to work with most of my images and tag them according to some preferences, and I would save such tags in a txt file.
Anyway, all metadata I store about images, links etc are all persisted in txt files. summaries, tags, etc, incoming/outgoing links etc, each has its own file. There are folders per link/content. Under each folder, one file per type of metadata. So it is very easy to know if some metadata is missing for a file, no index needed, it is just as simple as checking the presence of a file. everything is compatible with grep then.
for docx and xlsx it is out of my plate at this time, I didn't experiment enough to judge what works well enough. I hate those things.
