Sounds really cool. I’ve been wanting something like this. Kudos for building it!
I don’t see the link to the rep on on first glance of the linked site, so linking it here: https://github.com/timelinize/timelinize
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#22I really like the local storage of this. Files and folders are the best!
(When noodling on this, I’ve also been wondering about putting metadata for files in sidecar files next to the files they describe, rather than a centralized SQLite database. Did you experiment with anything like that by any chance?)
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#23This 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 searchable and that can answer the question: "what was I working on 2 weeks ago on this day?" and bring back all the context also.
For obvious reasons this has to be self hosted and managed. I'm not interested in creating surveillance software or technology.
It sounds extreme but whenever I have seen peoples obsidian set ups with heaps of manual and bidirectional linking I always thought that time is the one thing we should look at. If I look up some concept on wikipedia today, there is a higher chance of me looking up related concepts or working on something related to that around this time also.
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#24Beautiful app. Surprised to see JQuery for your frontend; brings back good old memories.
Ha, thanks it’s actually AJQuery, just a two line shim to gain the $ sugar. Otherwise vanilla JS.
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#25Hey - this is awesome. I've been working on a small local app like this to import financial data and present a dashboard, for the family to use together (wife and I). So yeah - great work here, taking control of your data.
I'm curious about real-time data, or cron jobs, though. I love the idea of importing my data into this, but it would be nicer if I could set it up to automatically poll for new data somehow. Does Timelineize do something like that? I didn't see on the page.
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#26That's great, I've been running a timeline of my life in excel, I wonder if this could replace it.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. Major thorn in my side. I spent hours trying to automate that process by using Chrome headless, and it kinda worked, until I realized that I needed to physically authenticate not just once, but every 10 minutes. So, it basically can't be automated since 2FA is needed so often. In practice, I do a Takeout once or twice a year. (I recommend this even if not using Timelinize, so you can be sure to have your data.)
Some kind of companion app that runs on my phone and streams the latest data (photos, location history, texts, etc ) back to the timeline would probably be more tractable for live updates. But that is probably a wildly different scope than the import based workflow. This is very cool regardless.
Syncthing from phone to a directory on PC?
That's what I do. Though I don't then put them into any system. Yet.
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#29I've been basically doing this for years via a private mastodon instance. Very nice to see!
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#30Nice project! If you don't like "timelinize" - have you looked at latin names? Perhaps something like Temperi?
In terms of Features, i'd like to see support for FindPenguins. A lot of interesting data (photos, videos, GPS coordinates, text) is already there.