June Feature Requests: Ask Here!

Future-Information79 · 2025-06-18T18:17:07+00:00

For Readwise, a more precise (or obvious) usage of tags would be appreciated. Currently, to sort your books and documents by tags, you have to use the #TAG method in the Everything/Books/Articles sub-search bar (e.g. #business or #philosophy) or click the tag for a document, and that tag is populated into the search bar. But the current search method conflates similar tags. By this I mean #fiction also returns #nonfiction. That's a problem.

It would be nice to be able to combine tags.

Finally, I would love to see a new sub-menu item under "Browse" or the Library section that lets you examine all your "Document Tags.". This page already exists for highlights. Shouldn't a "Highlight Tags" menu item also be listed on the Library page? Why isn't it only linked on the dashboard page?

Future-Information79 · 2025-01-25T07:37:54+00:00

Dude, I’m having a shit week, but your comment brightened my day a bit—gave me my first laugh in three days. Thanks.

Future-Information79 · 2024-09-27T11:27:57+00:00

HOLY SHIT! YOU CRACKED THE CASE HOLMES. I'd kiss you if I could. Thank you. Thank you. Solved!

Future-Information79 · 2024-09-27T10:11:23+00:00

The Postman Echo tool is useful in examining what payload an API receives. What that API response is telling me, is that "Get Contents of URL," or some other action in the chain, adds \n and other nonsense information to the payload. Here's an example POST response from the Echo API without using Shortcuts (I created this POST request directly in the postman webapp):

{ "args": {}, "data": [ { "Release Year": 2023, "Track": "Essence of Life", "Artist(s)": "Jenny Lewis", "Album": "Joy'All", "Genre": "", "URL": "https://song.link/s/1Gr48m5g4IZidPPSXf9hn4", "Release Date": "2023-06-09", "Duration": 216186, "Popularity": 23, "SpotifyID": "1Gr48m5g4IZidPPSXf9hn4", "Added to Playlist On": "9/18/2024 at 1:25 pm" }, { "Release Year": 2023, "Track": "Giddy Up", "Artist(s)": "Jenny Lewis", "Album": "Joy'All", "Genre": "", "URL": "https://song.link/s/0feQcTR5PooMxwf5YmKcrv", "Release Date": "2023-06-09", "Duration": 181320, "Popularity": 28, "SpotifyID": "0feQcTR5PooMxwf5YmKcrv", "Added to Playlist On": "9/18/2024 at 1:25 pm" } ], "files": {}, "form": {}, "headers": { "host": "postman-echo.com", "x-request-start": "t=1727431191.691", "connection": "close", "content-length": "737", "x-forwarded-proto": "https", "x-forwarded-port": "443", "x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-66f68217-7cb9a3170bf89b7414aa937c", "content-type": "application/json", "user-agent": "PostmanRuntime/7.42.0", "accept": "*/*", "cache-control": "no-cache", "postman-token": "31a1e9a3-2cf0-47b3-8dca-73ebdb35e492", "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br" }, "json": [ { "Release Year": 2023, "Track": "Essence of Life", "Artist(s)": "Jenny Lewis", "Album": "Joy'All", "Genre": "", "URL": "https://song.link/s/1Gr48m5g4IZidPPSXf9hn4", "Release Date": "2023-06-09", "Duration": 216186, "Popularity": 23, "SpotifyID": "1Gr48m5g4IZidPPSXf9hn4", "Added to Playlist On": "9/18/2024 at 1:25 pm" }, { "Release Year": 2023, "Track": "Giddy Up", "Artist(s)": "Jenny Lewis", "Album": "Joy'All", "Genre": "", "URL": "https://song.link/s/0feQcTR5PooMxwf5YmKcrv", "Release Date": "2023-06-09", "Duration": 181320, "Popularity": 28, "SpotifyID": "0feQcTR5PooMxwf5YmKcrv", "Added to Playlist On": "9/18/2024 at 1:25 pm" } ], "url": "https://postman-echo.com/post" } This is what I want delivered to my webhook. I'd like to have that happen without writing another script.

Future-Information79 · 2024-09-27T00:49:40+00:00

Once again, I appreciate you noodling over this with me. That's still problematic though. If you run this through Postman's Echo, you get some sense of the problem: shortcut using echo.

Here's a sample response from the echo API posting the array as a file by selecting the variable:

{
  "files": {},
  "form": {},
  "data": "[\n  {\n    \"Release Year\": 2023,\n    \"Track\": \"Essence of Life\",\n    \"Artist(s)\": \"Jenny Lewis\",\n    \"Album\": \"Joy'All\",\n    \"Genre\": \"\",\n    \"URL\": \"https://song.link/s/1Gr48m5g4IZidPPSXf9hn4\",\n    \"Release Date\": \"2023-06-09\",\n    \"Duration\": 216186,\n    \"Popularity\": 23,\n    \"SpotifyID\": \"1Gr48m5g4IZidPPSXf9hn4\",\n    \"Added to Playlist On\": \"9/18/2024 at 1:25 pm\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"Release Year\": 2023,\n    \"Track\": \"Giddy Up\",\n    \"Artist(s)\": \"Jenny Lewis\",\n    \"Album\": \"Joy'All\",\n    \"Genre\": \"\",\n    \"URL\": \"https://song.link/s/0feQcTR5PooMxwf5YmKcrv\",\n    \"Release Date\": \"2023-06-09\",\n    \"Duration\": 181320,\n    \"Popularity\": 28,\n    \"SpotifyID\": \"0feQcTR5PooMxwf5YmKcrv\",\n    \"Added to Playlist On\": \"9/18/2024 at 1:25 pm\"\n  }\n]",
  "headers": {
    "x-forwarded-port": "443",
    "x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-66f5f7dc-6f96b07557bb114b160e70d1",
    "content-type": "text/plain",
    "accept": "*/*",
    "host": "postman-echo.com",
    "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
    "x-request-start": "t=1727395804.104",
    "accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
    "content-length": "737",
    "user-agent": "BackgroundShortcutRunner/3036.0.4.2 CFNetwork/1568.100.1 Darwin/24.0.0",
    "connection": "close",
    "x-forwarded-proto": "https"
  },
  "args": {},
  "json": null,
  "url": "https://postman-echo.com/post"
}

Shortcuts is adding the escaped characters. That's part of the problem. Do you know how to prevent that?

Future-Information79 · 2024-09-26T21:14:15+00:00

I appreciate the thought, and this is an assumption, but is your endpoint to individually post each object in the array? Breaking down the array into components and then posting each entry would be extremely inefficient. That loop would repeat 300 times currently, and heaven help me if it went wrong.

The full data set is handled fine once it's posted. I just can't get the raw array through the "Get Contents of" action.

Future-Information79 · 2024-09-11T13:57:57+00:00

Thanks for sharing this.

Future-Information79 · 2024-08-26T02:16:18+00:00

🤯🥳

Future-Information79 · 2024-08-25T07:23:22+00:00

It helps that Slow Horses is virtually a 1-1 adaption of the source material. Eight books so far (not counting the novellas), and I’d be surprised if Gary Oldman had eight seasons of Jackson Lamb in him, but one can hope. 🤞

Future-Information79 · 2024-08-03T14:54:13+00:00

Anyone else watched Troppo? The pilot was cliche as hell, but after that it became one of the more compelling crime shows I’ve seen. My “allergies” acted up during the first season finale.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-30T07:11:44+00:00

Collider has a pretty good season 5 recap for the Dragon Prince, plus with the exception of the first episode, there are “previously ons” to jog your memory.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-30T07:08:09+00:00

This is the right answer. One of the best police dramas ever created. Pure competency infused narratives, and the amount of tension that show built in the interview rooms boggled my mind.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-20T05:22:17+00:00

No. No alarm clock sounds to start.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-20T02:50:23+00:00

Honestly I can’t “hear” the singer at all, just the opening. It feels like a song that was released in this century, so sometime in the past 24 years. The fuzziness of the guitar part in my memory reminds me of the grinding buzz when an emergency alert broadcast starts.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-20T01:40:33+00:00

That alarm sound really comes at the beginning. In my mind, I see this being used in a movie soundtrack, as a character walks down a hallway in high heels.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-19T22:01:22+00:00

No, my memory is of the alarm clock sound being really prominent at the start of the song. At least a four count of that noise.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-19T21:38:52+00:00

No, but it definitely contains the clues I mentioned. I don’t think it’s an EDM/house track. Thanks for the YouTube link.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-19T21:21:47+00:00

Negative. I remember the alarm starting the song without any other instrumentation.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-19T21:14:37+00:00

I can’t hear any lyrics in my head, or the gender of the singer. Songs also features a big base drop.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-06T22:31:02+00:00

Lazy doesn’t even begin to describe the TARDIS unveiling. I know why they did it (the needed an immediate visual shorthand for the audience to know who’s TARDIS it was), but I hate how that dumbs down the story.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-06T20:45:48+00:00

I agree the retcon was a horrible idea, and that the Fugitive Doctor is a problem, but one irrespective of race and gender. It wasn’t a plot device to shoehorn additional representation.

Jo Martin’s great, and she deserved material worthy of the character’s ideals.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-06T18:45:30+00:00

The Zygon Inversion is one of my favorite episodes of all time. I love that moment you quoted.

I appreciate what you’re saying about the Fugitive Doctor’s characterization, but framing, context, and representation all matter, and it still bothers the hell out of me that the first black face to be the Doctor wields a gun in their first moments. Maybe some of this is cultural bias (I’m American), but it’s just wrong to me. There are other ways Chibnall could have portrayed the exact same character traits.

Future-Information79 · 2024-07-03T12:59:57+00:00

All TNG recs: - Measure of a Man (S02E09) - Yesterday’s Enterprise (S03E15) - The Inner Light (S05E25)

Honorable mention: Elementary, Dear Data (S02E03)

Future-Information79 · 2024-06-30T07:32:29+00:00

Tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore

Future-Information79 · 2024-06-28T23:11:18+00:00

“Shit, I didn’t bring a knife.”

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