What is a Reading Heap?

It's a heap of things you want to read. Shocking, I know. But what does that mean? Simply, it means you add a priority when you put an item on the heap, and when you ask the heap what to read it will take your priorities into account (another name for a heap is a priority queue, after all).

What sets Reading Heap apart?

Reading-Heap is implemented as a service, so any zmq-enabled language can write a client for it. You could possibly write a client to add an article from your phone via a web service, grab the details into your wayland clipboard from the command line, and maybe one day file it into your org-mode agenda buffer.

Dependencies

• Guile 3 (or later)
• guile-config
• guile-json
• Guile-Simple-ZMQ
• ZeroMQ

Build Dependencies

• GNU AutoMake
• GNU AutoConf
• Guile Hall (optionally)

Procedure

The usual autotools make process applies here. We've put the call to hall build -x in the autogen.sh script, and only run it if we find Guile Hall.

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Server

To start this whole thing, put the following in your favorite autostart mechanism, or just run it from the command line.

rh-server

If you need to shut it down, you can use the command-line client.

rh-client shutdown

Command-line Client

Let's say you're a refined sort with good taste, and you want to read that collection of Emily Dickinson poems you've had next to your bed for the last year. You might do this:

rh-client new --priority 1 --title "The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition" --author "Emily Dickinson (Author) RW Franklin (Editor)" --location "Nightstand"

To get something back out, you would issue a 'next' command:

rh-client next

To let the system know you've been edified by the verse:

rh-client consume