The weekly format felt like a bit too much pressure, so I’ve been on a break for a while. After some reflection, I’ve settled into a rhythm of roughly one post every three weeks — which honestly means just going monthly. So this issue is a monthly digest! Here’s a roundup of the interesting things I discovered in November.
My Personal Information Feed
This issue I want to share how I manage my information diet. Here’s a simple diagram I sketched:
This setup works really well for me. Everything funnels into Inoreader or Reeder for reading, and with Readwise, any highlights I make automatically sync to Logseq and other note-taking tools.
Step 1: Input — subscribing to information sources.
I subscribe to a mix of WeChat public accounts, notifications for Bilibili uploaders I follow, and RSS feeds from V2EX, Sspai, Juejin, Douban groups, Zhihu trending, and Weibo hot topics. For newsletters I subscribe to, I set up email forwarding so everything flows into Inoreader as a single unified stream.
Step 2: Collection — using automation to pre-filter the stream.
I use Inoreader’s rules and monitoring features to watch for keywords in new content. For example, I monitor “Vite” — I built a small webhook forwarding service so whenever Juejin, Zhihu, or the frontend WeChat account “前端Q” publishes something about Vite, Inoreader fires my custom webhook and delivers it to my WeChat Work bot. Instant keyword monitoring.
Similarly, I monitor the Shenzhen Health Commission’s public account — if a new post’s title contains “daily new cases,” it gets pushed to the bot too, giving me an on-demand Shenzhen pandemic tracker.
Step 3: Reading — annotating as I go.
I read in either Reeder or directly in Inoreader. Reeder is a native app with a better experience, but both support the same vim-style shortcuts, which makes reading a pleasure:
- J: previous article
- K: next article
- M: mark unread
- S: star
- Space: scroll / next page
With these shortcuts, I can get through 300+ articles a day, picking out ten or so to star for deeper reading.
Highlighting is simple — just select text while reading, and annotations sync to Readwise automatically, whether I’m in the reader or taking inline notes.
Step 4: Organization and output — consolidating notes in Logseq or Obsidian.
Both Logseq and Obsidian have official Readwise plugins that periodically sync highlight notes to local files for further processing and elaboration.
Readwise highlights output in Logseq:
Readwise highlights output in Obsidian (with DataView integration):
This Month’s Log
- Finished: J-Drama | Love and Fortune | ★★★★★
- Finished: J-Drama | Confidence Man JP: Hero Episode | ★★★★★
- Finished: Anime | Detective Conan: Halloween no Hanayome | ★★★☆☆
- Watching: Anime | Spy × Family | ★★★★★
- Watching: Anime | Pantheon | ★★★★☆
- Watching: J-Drama | World’s Strangest Stories (Tales of the Unusual) | ★★★★☆
- Playing: Switch | Persona 5 Royal | ★★★★★
Confidence Man JP — highly recommend. I rewatched the Hero episode just this week. Even knowing a twist is coming, when it finally lands, it still manages to get your blood pumping. (PS. Really love Daichi’s character.)
World’s Strangest Stories feels like opening a mystery box — you never know if any given short will be brilliant or dull. Averaging it out gives four stars.
Love and Fortune was advertised as a comedy, but the fourth episode wrecked me. I finally understand why so many people adore Haruma Miura — his smile genuinely reaches right into your chest. He makes you feel the character’s warmth and joy from the inside out. I’m slowly coming to terms with the fact that as you get older, farewells outnumber new encounters, and loss outnumbers gain.
— “The stream flows on without pause, yet each drop is different. Bubbles form on the surface and dissolve. Nothing lasts. Such is the way of all things in this world.”
I also loved the female lead’s anti-consumerism philosophy: before buying anything, ask yourself — is this a consumption, a waste, or an investment? Money is exchanged life energy. If what you’re buying isn’t worthy of that life energy, you should love yourself more than you love the material purchase.
