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The Pain Point Behind Xiaohongshu Favorites

My wife is a typical heavy Xiaohongshu user. She has more than 1,000 saved posts—makeup tutorials, outfit ideas, travel routes… you name it.

A while ago, she decided to finally organize her Favorites. But the moment she opened the first page, she froze—those thousand-plus posts spanned every possible topic, with no groups and no structure. Manually sorting them into folders would be a nightmare.

She started by creating 37 collections and began moving posts into them. After sorting about twenty-something posts, she understandably gave up the next day. Watching her workflow, I realized the real issue—this is exactly the kind of repetitive task AI should handle, not humans.

So I built a small tool that automatically classifies her 1,400 saved posts and syncs them into Notion.

How AI Classification Works

The general idea is to use each Xiaohongshu post’s title + content + tags as part of a prompt, together with all predefined categories (e.g., travel, movies, makeup, outfits), and let the AI return the most suitable category.

Because Xiaohongshu’s web version doesn’t allow assigning posts to collections via automation, we need to save both the post data and AI-generated category into our own database—in this case, Notion, which is great for building a personal knowledge base.

• A simple breakdown of the steps:

• Call Xiaohongshu’s web API to fetch post content (using a browser extension to access the web interface).
• Create your own categories inside Notion (the more detailed, the better).
• Feed the content + full category list to the AI; the AI API returns the best-fit category.
• Save both the post content and the AI-assigned category into Notion.

Plugin Usage

After installing the plugin, follow the steps to fill in your Notion configuration. A detailed setup guide is available here. The plugin will copy a customized Xiaohongshu Knowledge Base template into your Notion workspace:

In the Xiaohongshu Knowledge Base template, find the “Categories” section and add all the categories you need, as shown below:

Then go to the plugin settings page. You’ll need to provide your own API key for the AI model. Once the key is configured, start AI classification:

Return to the sync page, authorize Xiaohongshu, click “Start Sync,” and the plugin will automatically save both the posts and their assigned categories to Notion.

Final Result

All post pages:

Category view in Notion:

Once auto-classification is enabled, the entire workflow requires zero manual operation—just start the task once and let the system run. Within two days, all 1,400 Xiaohongshu posts were automatically categorized and synced into Notion, with additional support for pinning, playback, note-taking, multi-tag management, and more—done in one go.

If you were to manually categorize 1,400+ posts, even at 30 seconds per post, you’d need at least 11.7 hours of repetitive work. Now, with just a 10-minute one-time setup, the system handles everything else. You save 95% of your time and gain a 100× efficiency boost.

Related Links：

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Detailed Setup Guide