Report CLI

Boost your tech watch archiving process with this CLI tool: https://github.com/brequet/report.

Keeping track of all the interesting blog articles you read for your tech watch can be challenging. Use this tool to generate markdown summaries from the article URLs and maintain a neat archive of your discoveries. I personally use this to generate summary for my Obsidian vault.

How it works

The tool get the content from the target URL and uses GROQ API to leverage the llama-3.1-8b-instant model to get a summary. The summary is formatted into a markdown file using a template for easy reference and storage.

Requirement

An API key from https://groq.com/.

Example

Using this article from Greg Kogan: https://www.gkogan.co/removing-stuff/

> report ./ https://www.gkogan.co/removing-stuff/
Article created successfully: Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better.md

Generate this markdown summary file:

---
title: Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better
url: https://www.gkogan.co/removing-stuff/
date_created: 2024-09-29
last_consulted: 2024-09-29
tags:
- productivity
- complexity
- simplification
- startups
- strategy
---
# Summary
The author shares their experience with Pinecone's calculator, which was supposed to help users estimate their costs but ended up causing confusion. After removing the calculator, they found that visitors were 16% more likely to sign up and 90% more likely to contact them, indicating that the calculator was a source of complexity and pain.
# Key Points
- **Complexity is a silent killer**: The author shares how Pinecone's calculator became a source of complexity and pain, deterring users from signing up.
- **Don't be afraid to remove**: The author encourages companies to question and remove things that are not adding value, which can lead to great results such as faster growth and more revenue.
- **Signups are unreliable**: The author argues that signups are a lousy measure of growth and suggests tracking activations instead.