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Wonderful, I'd love to collaborate!
Dig deep on "dogsheep" from Mr Willison. We're all circling on the same orbit here.
Woah. Hadn’t seen that yet. Link: https://dogsheep.github.io/
Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
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Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
#142This is great. I want this but for much more. I want it to also be a nextcloud and zotero replacement, storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write. I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I press. I want a record of everything I do in the digital world that is searc…
I think you might appreciate this talk, which uses a micro kernel to do a lot of the ideas you’re talking about.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...
This could even allow resetting the state of the computer back in time so you can pick up exactly where you left off, or undo away mistakes regardless of app, etc.
Definitely some privacy concerns but for a self ran open source thing I think it could be really cool
Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
#143This is great. I want this but for much more. I want it to also be a nextcloud and zotero replacement, storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write. I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I press. I want a record of everything I do in the digital world that is searc…
I think Microsoft has some kind of product that can help you Recall what you were working on?
The problem with that wasn’t the idea for me, it’s that Microsoft was doing it and they’re a known bad actor
Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
#144This is great. I want this but for much more. I want it to also be a nextcloud and zotero replacement, storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write. I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I press. I want a record of everything I do in the digital world that is searc…
This is absolutely crazy. Every secret service on this planet will be happy! They have been working so hard to get all these informations about every person. With this software they get everything delivered FOB. The united spies will make a worldwide ad campaign for your software.
Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
#145Oh I love this oh so much. It lines up with a lot of things I've wanted or am planning. So I'm definitely going to take a dive into your source for inspiration One thing I wish for encompasses the idea that I might want to share different slices of my life with different groups
Sharing is planned. Long term roadmap but definitely on my list!
I was looking for a "sharing idea" comment, so it's great to see something is planned.
Being able to share a time-based, geo-based, or X-based slice (all or some of) with someone would be a great way to learn about "close encounters" before or after we met, or even someone else's perspective of a shared trip or experience.
Just a general comment; you've made something truly wonderful (IMHO), and I look forward to seeing where you take this.
Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
#146I wanted to give it a try, unfortuantely I fail already at the first screen. Selection a location the backend fails at creating the timeline:
"error": "opening database: pinging database file: invalid uri authority: D%5CMy%20Timeline%5Ctimeline.db_foreign_keys=on&_journal_mode=wal&_txlock=immediate&mode=rwc"
Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
#147Super interested in this as well (and thank you for Caddy) How does this handle data updating / fixing? My use case is importing data that's semi structured. Say you get data from a 3rd party provider from one dump, and it's for an event called "jog". Then they update their data dump format so "jog" becomes subdivided into "light run" vs "intense walk", and they also applied it retroactively. In this case you'd have…
Glad you like Caddy! > How does this handle data updating / fixing? In the advanced import settings, you can customize what makes an item unique or a duplicate. You can also configure how to handle duplicates. By default, duplicates are skipped. But they can also be updated, and you can customize what gets updated and which of the two values to keep. But yes, updates do run an UPDATE query, so they're irreversible. I…
Have you heard of XTDB / Bitemporality? The basic idea is to make time 2-dimensional, where each record has both a System Time range and a Valid Time range. Designed as a write-only db with full auditability for compliance purposes.
With 2D time you can ask complex questions about what you knew when, with simpler questions automatically extended into a question about the current time. Like:
"What is the price?" -> "What is the price today, as of today?"
"What was the price in 2022" -> "What was the price in 2022, as of today?"
"What was the price in 2022, as of 2023?"
Docs: https://docs.xtdb.com/concepts/key-concepts.html#temporal-co... | 2025 Blog: https://xtdb.com/blog/diy-bitemporality-challenge | Visualization tool: https://docs.xtdb.com/concepts/key-concepts.html#temporal-co...
Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
#148This is great. I want this but for much more. I want it to also be a nextcloud and zotero replacement, storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write. I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I press. I want a record of everything I do in the digital world that is searc…
I think Microsoft has some kind of product that can help you Recall what you were working on?
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#149I wanted to give it a try, unfortuantely I fail already at the first screen. Selection a location the backend fails at creating the timeline: "error": "opening database: pinging database file: invalid uri authority: D%5CMy%20Timeline%5Ctimeline.db_foreign_keys=on&_journal_mode=wal&_txlock=immediate&mode=rwc" It seems it is trying to parse windows file paths as URIs, and thrown off by the ":" in windows file paths.
Just fixed that. Thanks. You can download the latest CI artifact for the patch (the link is on the Install page in the docs).
Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
#150This is great. I want this but for much more. I want it to also be a nextcloud and zotero replacement, storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write. I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I press. I want a record of everything I do in the digital world that is searc…
This is absolutely crazy. Every secret service on this planet will be happy! They have been working so hard to get all these informations about every person. With this software they get everything delivered FOB. The united spies will make a worldwide ad campaign for your software.
No. It's not like services/products people use of big companies don't already collect to this type of level.
I'm at least proposing that this be open source, self hostable and valuable to yourself.
Also, I know my threat model. Maybe you are James Bond though.