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My dream would be seamless interoperation between all these tools. Would also mean better 'competition', easier to convince people to try them, avoiding lock-in in one tool, etc etc.

For some tools it's already possible to interoperate -- for them would be nice to have summaries on what are the caveats (e.g. would the tool format my whole note base? would it break any special syntax imposed by the other tool? etc etc)

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I've been thinking of a tool to generate a kind of schema for a website, similar to RDF[0] or JSON-LD[1]. The end goal of this would be interoperability between tools - ideally I could browse HN and other related sites or forums in my RSS reader with a unified interface, or translate the Roam note format into the Athens equivalent to use with either.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework

[1] https://json-ld.org/

To me RSS is exactly that. I don't see the advantage of converting an HTML to RDF because it would cover the entire spectrum. All the semantics might be lost. RSS is the smallest common denominator. If you agree somehow, you might be interested in that tool [0], it converts HTML to RSS using pattern matching.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

Sorry, RSS was probably a bad example. I meant that I could have One Interface to Rule Them All, seamless collaboration between similar tools (e.g. viewing repositories on Github and Gitlab in a single application, or ordering a few items from a few different sites in a single place). I think the problem today is that data between websites is disjointed and not interoperable with other sites; my solution would be to build a tool that generates a kind of formula for conversion from multiple sites, such as Github and Gitlab, to a standard format, which can then be consumed by an application. Data and features wouldn't be mapped one-to-one, which is probably one of the larger problems.

The tool looks fantastic though, thanks for sharing.

Similar tool for "RSS from any page": https://github.com/taroved/pol#readme

Not sure what are the differences though

I did not know this one. The difference is that the first one extracts the feeds automatically, the second one not. Here the user has to define everything.

As it turns out there is already a tool [0] for my original idea which I just discovered today [1].

[0] https://github.com/inkandswitch/cambria [1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html

That setup would also be a defense against potential bad actors acquiring one of the tools and somehow adding malicious code to it, so then people are quickly mobile to move to a comparable; like with the recent situation with The Great Suspender extension.

logseq seems to support markdown and org-mode :)

Sadly the transclusions ("Block embed") are not supported by any non-roam tools.

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