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Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by doelie_ » Sat, May 09, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

Cool project. I have been on the lookout for something like this.

The idea of exocortex seems to be something that many people want, and almost universially re-invent because the way in which structuring makes sense is different for everyone. I like the approach of making it modular so people can pick and choose parts and do their own integration.

What I learned from thinking about this problem is that this kind of integration is really hard and almost impossible to tackle without an evolutionary approach, and it made me go meta and focus on incremental development of the integration layer first. My interpretation of the idea of exocortex might be a bit different in that the focus is not so much about information per se, but more about systems that interact with the physical world. Here's a writeup in case anyone is interested in where it took me: https://github.com/zwizwa/erl_tools/blob/master/doc/exo.org

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by karlicoss » Sun, May 10, 2020, 9:37 AM UTC

adrienchauvet wrote: post #87

I think you should check this project form Tim Berners Lee: https://solid.mit.edu/

Hey, thanks. I'm listing it as once of the links, and I tried using it, but I kind of struggled to see if it can integrate with the existing infrastructure.

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by karlicoss » Sun, May 10, 2020, 9:41 AM UTC

anantse wrote: post #90

mholt wrote: post #66

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Cool, that's similar to my project Timeliner: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner It downloads your data from social media (or other online sites) into a single sqlite database. It can even draw relations between various accounts/people. I use it to back up my Google Photos.

Oh wow that's awesome. This sounds a lot like my project, in philosophy and practice: https://github.com/NickSto/life-browser I've focused on Google Takeout exports so far. Only gotten Hangouts and Voice working at this point. I feel like all of us need to be working on a common codebase for all these parsers. I just found out a week ago that the Hangouts format changed significantly and totally broke my parser (whic…

Thanks, I'll check it out!

Yep, agree about the common codebase, that's why I'm trying to keep everything modular and thinking a lot about it. I describe this bit of my philosophy/design here [0].

I've only written parsers/exporters if I haven't found any (or any that wouldn't be a complete pain to adapt) so far. Google Takeout processing is a part of HPI, but I was going to extract it in a separate repository, so perhaps we both could benefit from it.

[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/exports.html#bindings

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by 21stio » Sun, May 10, 2020, 7:38 PM UTC

Neph wrote: post #32

This is awesome, I'm working on an personal, self hosted, IoT System from scratch where I have several fetch agents in huggin to get data and store it in "The Archive" (DataStorage Server) Than I have different API's to that my IoT devices call to fetch the data from The Archive to trigger events and generate dashboards. This might be a great way to optimize it and save my some development time for things that I don'…

Sounds interested. Do you have a link to share?

Re: Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

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Post by anantse » Mon, May 11, 2020, 4:07 AM UTC

karlicoss wrote: post #93

anantse wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh wow that's awesome. This sounds a lot like my project, in philosophy and practice: https://github.com/NickSto/life-browser I've focused on Google Takeout exports so far. Only gotten Hangouts and Voice working at this point. I feel like all of us need to be working on a common codebase for all these parsers. I just found out a week ago that the Hangouts format changed significantly and totally broke my parser (whic…

Thanks, I'll check it out! Yep, agree about the common codebase, that's why I'm trying to keep everything modular and thinking a lot about it. I describe this bit of my philosophy/design here [0]. I've only written parsers/exporters if I haven't found any (or any that wouldn't be a complete pain to adapt) so far. Google Takeout processing is a part of HPI, but I was going to extract it in a separate repository, so pe…

Hmm it's interesting how diverse the data sources people are actually using, but there's definitely overlap. I also have tried searching before I write anything myself, and often I find something (both Hangouts and Voice were like that). But it's funny how my use case is always significantly different, so I end up having to put in plenty of work on top of what they've already done.

I suppose one thing that could be universally useful is common documentation about what we've discovered in reverse-engineering the formats. I often have extensive notes like this: https://github.com/NickSto/life-browser/blob/master/drivers/...

I remember finding a wiki about this a while back but I can't find it right now..