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.
Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
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#92I have been recording my gps every few mins for the past 10years for this exact product. Looks interesting.
Out of curiosity, how have you been doing this?
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That is possible in theory, but for me personally that's just too detailed. :D I wouldn't need all that granularity, myself. I do see that. I think for that reason it would be cool to support a kind of extension system for arbitrary "collectors". And then solid filtering to filter data. The vision is definitely similar. I am very pleasantly surprised to see your project. And I also like your ideas/roadmap on the we…
Wonderful, I'd love to collaborate!
Dig deep on "dogsheep" from Mr Willison. We're all circling on the same orbit here.
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#94This seems like the perfect thing to mix with financial records (ie bank feeds) and a local LLM. I’m not sure what you’d use it for … exactly … but it could probably reconcile and figure out all your credit card charges based on your message history and location, allocate charges to budgets, and show more analytics than you’re probably interested in knowing. People with a cloud connected car such as a Tesla could pro…
ledger.txt (plaintextaccounting.org), g-cal integration, and Home Assistant are all so close to each other.
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#95Hey - 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 T…
Cool, yeah, the finance use case seems very relevant. Someday it'd be cool to have a Finance exploration page, like we do for other kinds of data. Real-time/polling imports aren't yet supported, but that's not too difficult once we land on the right design for that feature. I tinkered with a "drop zone" where you could designate a folder that, when you add files to it, Timelinize immediately imports it (then deletes…
I have something set up at home: ~/Inbox and ~/Outbox. Anything dropped into ~/Outbox gets rsync'd to rsync.net and mv'd (locally) to ~/Inbox.
Anything in ~/Inbox is "safe to delete" because it's guaranteed to have an off-site backup.
Presumably a fancy management app would queue (or symlink) the full directory structure into ~/Inbox (which would then behave as a "streaming cache")
~/Inbox would effectively be available (read only) on "all machines" and "for free" with near zero disk space until you start accessing or pulling down files.
I use Dropbox to manage ~/Sync (aka: active, not "dead" files).
"Outbox", "Inbox", and "Sync" have been the "collaboration names" that resonated the most with me (along with ~/Public if you're old enough, and ~/Documents for stuff that's currently purely local)
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#96Great work. Various ideas here:
You might suggest to users the following use case. “If you want to create a Timelinize data store, but don’t feel that your own local systems are secure enough to safely hold a basket with a copy of every egg in your life, you might consider the following use case, which some of our customers implement. Once our twice a year, update the data store, but store it on an external disk. When the update is done, take the disk offline and keep it in a drawer or safe.”
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I always wondered how cool it would be if I could tell some Spotify-like system, “I’m 20 miles away from the lake, we are going to stay in the cabins a week, just like we did 10 years ago. Play me the exact same songs now that played at every turn back then.”
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For a name, how about: ChronEngine That name seems pretty free and clear from previous use, if you like it grab ChronEngine.com before some squatter does and thank me with a phone call, I would enjoy a quick chat with you.
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Your web page might benefit from a grid that lists all the input sources you accept, with hotlinks next to the names that give a pop-up quick summary of what that source is about, and maybe some color coding that shows something like “green = rock solid lately”, “yellow = some users reporting problems”, “red = they just updated their format, it’s broken, we are working on it”. You will/are facing challenges similar to Trillian, a chat client from the early 2000s that would try to maintain ongoing connection compatibility with multiple other chat clients such as AIM/ICQ/MSN. Also, the grid could have a “suggested source sets” filter that helped people find what 5 (for example) input sources they might select for their use style.
Oh and make a list of anybody that says they have done an elaborate something similar with Excel (like me and at least one other person in this thread) and maybe have a discussion with them some time, we/they might have some useful insights.
Let’s hear it for people on the opposite side of the “go fast and break things” coin! My first project took 16 years. My current one I started 28 years ago!
Re: Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
#97Super 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…
Thanks for the reply! I'll have to try this out... it almost looks like what perkeep was meant to become.
One interesting scenario re time traveling is if we use an LLM somewhere in data derivation. Say there's a secondary processor of e.g. journal notes that yield one kind of feature extraction, but the model gets updated at some point, then the output possibilities expand very quickly. We might also allow human intervention/correction, which should take priority and resist overwrites. Assuming we're caching these data then they'll also land somewhere in the database and unless provenance is first class, they'll appear just as ground truth as any other.
Bitemporal databases look interesting but the amount of scaffolding above sqlite makes the data harder to manage.
So if I keep ground truth data as text, looks like I'm going to have an import pipeline into timelinize, and basically ensure that there's a stable pkey (almost certainly timestamp + qualifier), and always overwrite. Seems feasible, pretty exciting!
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#98Oh 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
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#99Great work. Various ideas here: You might suggest to users the following use case. “If you want to create a Timelinize data store, but don’t feel that your own local systems are secure enough to safely hold a basket with a copy of every egg in your life, you might consider the following use case, which some of our customers implement. Once our twice a year, update the data store, but store it on an external disk. Whe…
And one more idea from me. I could see your current system to be deliberately kept like it is, but offered as a two-part system, where the second part is, “once you get your timeline built and you have reviewed it carefully, then click here and the local-only LLM will have access to the whole thing.” The two part nature could be a big competitive advantage, helping people to carefully build a LLM system that, for instance, they could then offer to their whole family to peruse, without having to worry too much that it accidentally included information that it should not have.
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#100for many years I kept Tiny Travel Tracker running on my android phone, and would periodically import it into os&m maps. It was nice to have the record of all exactly all the places I had wandered to, and not also share that with five eyes.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.rareventure.gps2/