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The Memory App – Instant personalized memory recall

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Re: The Memory App – Instant personalized memory recall

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Post by daveguy »

desireco42 wrote: post #19
dumb-saint wrote: post #18

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So you "cringe on" Wikipedia?

Good point. Still, MySQL in 2016, almost 2017 :)

I think the point is: if it's able to handle the data needs of one of the largest sites in the world do you really need to worry about it not being able to handle a pet app?

It is obviously up to the task.

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Post by jsjohnst »

desireco42 wrote: post #17
djsumdog wrote: post #14

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I'm looking at hosting my own paperwork to replace Evernote: https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork I've been using Evernote since I first used the PalmPre app (they probably have the highest platform support out of any app), but with the recent price changes, I'm not sure if they'll be around for much longer. If I'm going to pay for something, I might as well have control of the data too.

I cringe on anything that uses MySQL to store information, but looks like something I wished I made, so I will definitely check this out, thanks for posting.

You do realize how many major (aka Top 1000) websites are powered by MySQL don't you? It's easy to dismiss MySQL if you're stuck with experience from <5.x, but the latest versions are actually quite good. I still prefer Postgres for many things, but MySQL definitely doesn't deserve to be cringe worthy anymore, imho.

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Post by pitaa »

dajohnson89 wrote: post #3

My memory sucks, and I would love an app to help me. Alleviate my concerns about data privacy, and make it available on Android, and I'll give it a serious try.

Same here. My memory is terrible. I've looked at these types of apps, but I have never seen one that was actually helpful.

Instead I stick with sticky notes for to-do's, and a folder of txt's of notes from meetings/conversations that I think I'll want to remember. This really helps remembering details, unfortunately I still can't remember faces for the life of me.

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Post by exodust »

Why can't they provide at least a little bit of information about how it works? All we get is glossy descriptions without substance... "you want this app, it's really good".. but nothing about whether it works offline, what cloud services it uses, or any details about back-ups, data handling or web version, permissions, or anything.

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Post by jmathai »

Sephr wrote: post #10

So I have to remember to manually tag every photo I take for this app to be useful? It seems like Google Photos is superior to this app in every aspect. The only disruption in photo management and search that could get me to switch from Google Photos is an open source alternative with equivalent ML-powered auto-tagging features.

Having all my photos in Google Photos feels like I have super powers. I've managed to find so many photos I was looking for without any specific search criteria I knew would work 100%. But Google Photos tends to do a pretty good job at finding them.

I did write some open source[1][2] software I use in conjunction with Google Photos[3].

[1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

[2] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

[3] https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go...

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