What are you trying to achieve?
I write short stories for my Discord users, and post them serialised on a daily schedule.
I do this manually, but it would be nice if I could automate this.
My process:
Write story (anywhere between 6 and 50 pages)
Go through the story and find the cut off points (roughly per page) and delimit those with a line of ‘=’
Every morning grab the next section and post it in the thread for that story, appending a tag (‘|| @readers ||’) so the people with that role get a notification
Go to yesterday’s post(s) and remove the tag
Caveats:
The posts sometimes exceed the maximum character count for a post, and need to be split. In that case both posts get the tag, so the next day two tags need to be removed
The posts contain italicised and/or bold text, these need to be translated to Discord markup (1, 2 or 3 asterisks on either side)
I realise this is a very complex scenario for a starter, and I don’t need everything in there to be in the first iteration, I’m absolutely happy to experiment, but the bigges issue is that there’s so many apps and modules, that I am completely lost…
I found the Google Docs module, YAY!
I already stumble at the next step: Splitting the content at the markers (“==========”) and putting it in an array, so I can then select the appropriate next block (I considered a few options for that, the easiest one: remove the markers and only take the section between the first and second marker, but I could also maintain a counter and increment that on every post…
I’m not asking for a complete solution, but if someone (or multiple people) could at least point me at the correct modules or tutorials…
Steps taken so far
Created a Make account, logged in, created a new scenario, added the Google Docs module, logged in and found the document.
