"We Can Still Have Nice Things" was a newsletter that I distributed every week. It featured a curated collection of 8 to 10 super positive links, organised into three categories: Joyful Links of the Week, Animal Corner, and Recipe of the Week.

I started this project at a time when Covid was rampant in 2020. At that moment, I deeply felt the need for people to be uplifted with positive news. Up until now, I have already sent out 12 editions.

What it looked like

Behind the scene

To make my life easier and free up more time for the exciting part—content writing—I've taken steps to automate the process:

• Pocket Saving: I initiate the process by saving interesting articles during the week to Pocket. This ensures convenient accessibility for sorting everything later.
• Custom Chrome Extension: For this project I have developed a dedicated Chrome extension to efficiently extract page data and seamlessly transmit it to Airtable.
• Script Execution: I have developed a script that efficiently retrieves data from Airtable and structures it in an HTML format.
• Content addition & final adjustments: During this last step supplementary content is added, with final touches.

See it in action

(detailed) video where I show the whole process.

(detailed) video where I show the whole process.

(Positive) Sources