Overview

Hello 👋 You're at the root of a monorepo.

This repo contains all of the code for my personal reading highlight system. You can read more about this project in this blog post.

Directory Structure

├── aws       # Email importer and AI/LLM features
├── firebase  # Database and backend
├── packages  # Reading export converters
│   ├── highlights-email-to-json
│   ├── kindle-clippings-to-json
│   ├── kindle-email-to-json
│   └── safari-books-csv-to-json
└── web       # Frontend

Installation

Pre-requisites

Node.js 18+
Python 3.10+
poetry

Setup top-level dependencies

To setup developer tooling, like linting and formatting:

make init

Then, each individual directory has its own README with setup instructions.

System context

C4Context
  Person(me, "Me")

  Boundary(aws, "AWS") {
    System(ai, "Search & Summarization", "S3, Lambda")
    System(email, "Email importer", "SES, S3, Lambda")
  }

  Boundary(vercel, "Vercel") {
    System(web, "Web app", "Next.js")
  }

  Boundary(google, "Firebase") {
    SystemDb(db, "Database", "Firestore")
    System(functions, "Data enricher", "Cloud Functions")
    System(api, "API", "Cloud Functions")
  }

  System(ga, "Google Analytics")

  Rel(me, email, "Emails export")
  Rel(email, db, "Creates records")
  Rel(api, db, "Reads")
  Rel(web, api, "Get volumes and highlights")
  Rel(web, ai, "Search")
  Rel(web, ga, "Track")
  BiRel(db, functions, "Triggers updates")
  UpdateRelStyle(db, functions, $offsetX="-45", $offsetY="-20")

  UpdateLayoutConfig($c4ShapeInRow="4", $c4BoundaryInRow="4")

Highlights

Install / Use

README