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Lifelogging is dead for now

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Re: Lifelogging is dead for now

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Post by fsiefken »

Every 2m a snapshot of my desktop gets taken through cron for personal review later. Would be nice if I had a similar minimally socially invasive tool away from my computer. Perhaps I can just use my memory for that.

Re: Lifelogging is dead for now

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Post by kristofferR »

fsiefken wrote: post #3

Every 2m a snapshot of my desktop gets taken through cron for personal review later. Would be nice if I had a similar minimally socially invasive tool away from my computer. Perhaps I can just use my memory for that.

I tried doing that for a while, but I just encountered the problems the article mentioned instead of getting any benefit from it.

Now I just use RescueTime instead.

Cool, that made me think about somehow combining the screenshots with the data from RescueTime. That could actually make regular screenshots like that useful and searchable instead of useless and bothersome.

Re: Lifelogging is dead for now

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Post by hscells »

This is actually the area of research for my honours thesis. Many of the points made here are very valid - there is simply so much personal data being generated and there is no way to access it in a meaningful way.
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