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

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Post by kylecazar »

"Because Timelinize is entity-aware, "it can project data points onto a map even without coordinate data. If a geolocated point is known for an entity around the same time of others of that entity's data points, it will appear on the map."

In the context of Timelinize, this is great! Outside of that, this sentence really drives home how much data Google could join on me -- a heavy Android/Chrome/Gmail/Maps w/ timeline user.

What are you planning with weather? Associating entities that have a known location with historical temp/forecast data?

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

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Post by mholt »

kylecazar wrote: post #71

"Because Timelinize is entity-aware, "it can project data points onto a map even without coordinate data. If a geolocated point is known for an entity around the same time of others of that entity's data points, it will appear on the map." In the context of Timelinize, this is great! Outside of that, this sentence really drives home how much data Google could join on me -- a heavy Android/Chrome/Gmail/Maps w/ timelin…

Something like that, yeah. Augmenting public data sets like weather or news to add context to your timeline.

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

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Post by mh- »

mholt wrote: post #38
coffeecoders wrote: post #36

Love the grind! One suggestion would be to add a demo link with some test data so we can see it in action. I am also slowly "offlining" my life. Currently, it is a mix of synology, hard drives and all. I have always thought about building a little dashboard to access everything really. Build a financial dashboard[1] and now onto photos. [1] https://github.com/neberej/freemycash/

A live demo would be great, but I'm not sure how to generate the fake data in a way that imitates real data patterns. That's originally how I wanted to demo things, but the results weren't compelling. (It was a half-hearted effort, I admit.) So I switched to obfuscating real data. FreeMyCash looks great! Yours is the second financial application I've heard of; maybe we need to look at adding some finance features soo…

Hmm, I bet you could find appropriately-licensed datasets on Kaggle or HuggingFace that you could repurpose for that.

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

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Post by michaelterryio »

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 can never find it now, but someone had an idea for a computing system which was purely temporal for every object and then you'd only access outside of temporal by filter.

I wish I could find it again.

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

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Post by apitman »

mholt wrote: post #9
akersten wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For sure. About 5-6 years ago, Timelinize actually used only the Google Photos API. It didn't even support imports from Takeout yet. The problem is the API strips photos of crucial metadata including location, and gives you nerfed versions of your data. Plus the rate limits were so unbearable, I eventually ripped this out. But yeah, an app that runs on your phone would be a nice QoL improvement.

Is takeout the only way to get the original photos out?

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

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Post by Boxlike3852 »

michaelterryio wrote: post #74
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 can never find it now, but someone had an idea for a computing system which was purely temporal for every object and then you'd only access outside of temporal by filter. I wish I could find it again.

Are you, by chance, referring to https://perkeep.org/ ?

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

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Post by hexagonwin »

Looks awesome! Btw, it would be nice if it can also support audio files, I frequently make multi hour long recordings (meetings, presentation etc) and it would be very useful to see pictures and other stuff from a specific time together with the audio from that timing.

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

#78

Post by whacked_new »

Super 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 to reimport a load of overlapping data.

I saw the FAQ and it only talks about imports not strictly additive.

I am dealing with similar use cases of evolving data and don't want to deal with SQL updating, and end up working entirely in plain text. One advantage is that you can use git to enable time traveling (for a single user it still works reasonably).

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

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Post by mholt »

codethief wrote: post #61
mholt wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great comment, thanks for the questions. > unless it's a machine at home, This is, in fact, the intended model. The problem with any other model, AFAIK, is that someone else has access to your data unless I implement an encrypted live database, like with homomorphic encryption, but even then, I'm sure at some places it would have to be decrypted in memory in places (like, transcoding videos or encoding images, for st…

Thanks for your thoughtful response! > I just don't think any other way of doing it is really feasible to truly preserve your privacy. I am likely wrong, but if so, I also imagine it's very tedious, nuanced, error-prone, and restrictive. It's certainly not easy but I wouldn't go as far as saying it requires homomorphic encryption. Have you had a look at what the Ente.io people do? Even though everything is E2E-encryp…

Correct, Timelinize is not a backup utility, but having the copy of your data in your timeline acts as a backup against losing access to your data sources, such as Google Photos, or your social media account(s), etc. As opposed to simply displaying data that is stored elsewhere.

But yes, I think the likes of what Ente is doing is interesting, though I don't know the technical details.

Data content hashes are pretty appealing too! But they have some drawbacks and I decided not to lean heavily on them in this application, at least for now.

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