Reading lists hackathon project

Goal

The aim of this project is to allow people to create and curate reading lists and learning resources around a particular topic and share them on the Life Itself website.

Why?

There are many resources out there for learning about a topic, but it can be hard to know where to start.
We want to make it easier for people to find resources and get started on their learning journey.
We want to make it easier for people to share their knowledge and expertise with others.
There's a diversity of perspectives on any particular topic, so allowing users to create their own reading lists will help to cater for this.
We want to provide a way for users to find out about topics that they might not have heard of before.

Inspiration

Places Journal reading lists – great example of how this could look on the website
LessWrong library – beautiful resource curation design (though it's only for LessWrong's own content)

How?

MVP (for the hackathon)

Create a basic markdown template that users can duplicate in order to add their reading list to the website through a GitHub pull request.
- User (creator)
- Topic
- Description (of the list and/or topic)
- List of resources. For each:
  - Type (e.g. book, paper, video, podcast, etc)
  - Title
  - Author
  - Link
  - Description (incl. why it was included in the list)
Create a (manually curated) page on the Life Itself website that serves as an index of all the reading lists.
Create 5-10 reading lists to start with.
Create a page with some basic notes on how to add a reading list to the website.

Future ideas

Tie this in with a higher level knowledge map
Auto-generate the reading list index page
Allow users to submit reading lists without using GitHub