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Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by wizzard0 »

mholt wrote: post #40
wizzard0 wrote: post #37

Wow that's great! Interesting if it's possible to use not just a folder but like a s3-compatible backend for photos and for db backups as well (I don't think all my photo/video archives would fit on my laptop, though the thumbnails definitely would, while minio or something replicated between my desktop plus a backup machine at Hetzner or something would definitely do the thing)

I don't think sqlite runs very well on S3 file systems. I think it would also be insufferably slow. I even encountered crashes within sqlite when using ExFAT -- so file system choice is definitely important! (I've since implemented a workaround for this bug by detecting exfat and configuring sqlite to avoid WAL mode, so it's just... much slower.)

Definitely not sqlite-on-s3! Just for the photos and videos, and the periodic db backups

Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by mholt »

wizzard0 wrote: post #41
mholt wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think sqlite runs very well on S3 file systems. I think it would also be insufferably slow. I even encountered crashes within sqlite when using ExFAT -- so file system choice is definitely important! (I've since implemented a workaround for this bug by detecting exfat and configuring sqlite to avoid WAL mode, so it's just... much slower.)

Definitely not sqlite-on-s3! Just for the photos and videos, and the periodic db backups

I see... that might make it hard to keep all the data together, which is one of the goals. But I will give it some thought.

Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by hn_acc1 »

sureglymop wrote: post #23

This 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?

Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by ignoramous »

mholt wrote: post #34
sureglymop wrote: post #23

This 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 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. Sounds in-scope so far. Long-term, perhaps, and maybe optional add-on features rather than built-in, but we'll see. > I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I pr…

Timelinize looks rad. Congratulations.

> That is possible in theory, but for me personally that's just too detailed. :D I wouldn't need all that granularity, myself.

Think this can go quite far with just the browsing history & content of viewed webpages.

Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by mholt »

ignoramous wrote: post #44
mholt wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. Sounds in-scope so far. Long-term, perhaps, and maybe optional add-on features rather than built-in, but we'll see. > I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I pr…

Timelinize looks rad. Congratulations. > That is possible in theory, but for me personally that's just too detailed. :D I wouldn't need all that granularity, myself. Think this can go quite far with just the browsing history & content of viewed webpages.

Thanks! Yes, I agree. Someone already implemented a Firefox history data source; I don't think it includes the _content_ of the pages, but that could be interesting.

Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by airtonix »

mholt wrote: post #4
akersten wrote: post #2

This is an amazing idea but do I have to run Google takeout every time I want to update the data[0]? Unfortunately that's such a a cumbersome process that I don't think I'd use this. But if my timeline could update in near real time this would be a killer app [0]: https://timelinize.com/docs/data-sources/google-photos

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.)

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Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by robinwassen »

mholt wrote: post #18
whistle650 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought you could set up an automatic Takeout export periodically, and choose the target to be your Google Drive. Then via a webapp oauth you could pull the data that way. Frequency was limited (looks like it says the auto export is “every 2 months for 1 year”). So hardly realtime, but seems useful and (relatively) easy? Does a method like that not work for your intentions?

Will have to look into that. Sounds like it could be expensive but maybe worth it.

You can schedule the takeout to Drive, then use a tool such as rclone (amazing tool) to pull it down.

It should not add any costs except the storage for the takeout zip on drive.

Look at supported providers in rclone and you might find easy solutions for some hard sync problems: https://rclone.org/#providers

Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by kevinsync »

As for branding, IMO you could go a bunch of directions:

Timelines

Tempor (temporal)

Chronos

Chronografik

Continuum

Momentum (moments, memory, momentum through time)

IdioSync (kinda hate this one tbh)

Who knows! Those are just the ones that fell out of my mouth while typing. It's just gotta have a memorable and easy-to-pronounce cadence. Even "Memorable" is a possibility LOL

-suggestions from some dude, not ChatGPT

Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by rixed »

Like others I really like the idea and the realisation looks great too!

I might not be the typical user for this, because I'd prefer my data to actually stay in the cloud where it is, but I'd still like to have it indexed and timelined. Can timelinize do this? Like, instead of downloading everything from gphoto, youtube, bluesky, wtv, just index what's there and offer the same interface? And only optionnaly download the actual data in addition to the meta-data?

Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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Post by mholt »

robinwassen wrote: post #47
mholt wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will have to look into that. Sounds like it could be expensive but maybe worth it.

You can schedule the takeout to Drive, then use a tool such as rclone (amazing tool) to pull it down. It should not add any costs except the storage for the takeout zip on drive. Look at supported providers in rclone and you might find easy solutions for some hard sync problems: https://rclone.org/#providers

> except the storage for the takeout zip on drive.

Yeah, that's the cost I'm talking about. It essentially amounts to paying an extra subscription to be able to download your data [on a regular basis].

I'm a big rclone fan btw :) I'm sure there's some future where we do something like this to automate Takeouts.

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