At home, I have a display with small jars of loose tea leaves. I wanted to have some way to quickly reference what was poured out, so I created this script to pull a list of teas from Notion. It generates files for an e-reader to display, which allows me to have an easy to update handheld menu to show guests when they visit.
The summary image shows the 12 teas on the display (6 for the top shelf, 6 for
the bottom shelf). Deno is used to generate an SVG file named tea.svg, which
can then be converted to a PNG file named tea.png using
Inkscape. You can either open Inkscape's UI and export
the SVG manually, or use its CLI to export the SVG with one command.
deno run --allow-net=api.notion.com --allow-env --allow-read --allow-write .\src\generate.ts
inkscape --export-type="png" tea.svgThis image is used as an e-book cover. It can also be uploaded separately as a
screensaver for the e-reader. For the Nook Simple Touch, I placed file in the
following folder on the e-reader hard drive (E:):
E:\screensavers\Tea\tea.png
Descriptions of each tea are written to an e-book. The e-book includes a table
of contents page formatted as a table with summarized tea information, followed
by a chapter for each tea. Deno generates a Markdown file named tea-list.txt
which is then converted by Pandoc into an ePub file named
tea.epub. ePubs are just zip files with a bunch of HTML, so you can validate
the content by making a copy with a .zip suffix instead of a .epub suffix.
deno run --allow-net=api.notion.com --allow-env --allow-read --allow-write .\src\generate.ts
pandoc tea-list.txt -o tea.epub --epub-title-page=false
cp tea.epub tea.zipValidate result with https://epub-reader.online