#ThoughtWall

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Electron app that pulls subscribed ThoughtForToday from your Gmail and sets them as you wallpaper.

Read more here.

HOW TO USE?

1.You need to be subscribed to "Thought For Today" emailing list.You can subscribe here.

2.Now go do something else. Come back 2 days later (because you'll be receiving only an email a day :( )

3.After you get the emails , you need to run the following in sequence.

1. sh makeInit.sh

   This makes three folder named html txt and quote that'l we'll be using to store intermediate files in.

2. node quickstart.js

   This is for gmail authentication .Run this again and it'll will download the mails and store .html in html

3. node extractThought.js

   This will extract a raw text message from .html files and place them in txt/
   

4. node extractTextOnly.js

   This will extract pure 'quote' from .txt files and place them in quotes/ folder.

   The following step works only on MacOS. Read makeWallFile.sh , and you'll understand how to do this in your OS.

5. sh makeWallFile.sh quote/filename.txt

   Pick any random file from quote. The quote from the file will be set as your desktop wallpaper.

The email:

Final Wallpaper On My Mac: