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None of them suited my needs.

I played around with Substack, I used to write on LinkedIn, tested out twitter, had my own on Wordpress and even old school blogger from google.

I tried out the web3 stuff such as mirror but they still didn’t suit my needs.

So I ended up building something very specific for myself.

I read a lot and wanted something like a Goodreads, substack and infused with my own research workflows.

So I have my bookshelves here: https://www.sovoli.com/shawn/shelves

Then I can create a form of post, this post can be annotations from books with AI helping to compile the connections to the books in the background like this: https://www.sovoli.com/shawn/the-journey-to-conscious-reasoning-understanding-ego-and-the-environment

Or I can make a regular post like this: https://www.sovoli.com/shawn/the-wise-men

I’m playing around with having bots comment on the content to point me to further readings in a cross disciplinary way, this is just scripted but it looks like this below and needs fine tuning: https://www.sovoli.com/shawn/reflections-on-balance-energy-and-the-guiding-force

My primary community is people on WhatsApp so I need to integrate with that and run notifications and subscribing via WhatsApp numbers.

Will see how it goes, the code is also source available here: https://github.com/shawnmclean/sovoli

(it actually started out as a ChatGPT plugin to compile research and send them to my database)

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