Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life
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#2that looks awesome. I think this area is ready for a great new application. I am not sure how it could be monetized or what it would even do.
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#3Cool project. I've been toying with and thinking about similar ideas lately but more focused on my productivity as a freelance software dev/ops person.
My approach is basically to view myself as a distributed system that receives various inputs (jira tickets, PR comments, slack messages, emails) and performs work that produces outputs (PRs, emails, PR reviews, deploys). I'm trying to model workflows for all types of work I do, and write plugins that process various inputs and outputs so tasks can enter and progress through these workflows.
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#4This is incredible. I've been slowly mapping out a similar idea, and gaining the programming chops to build it, so I thoroughly appreciate all the work this has to have taken to make real.
Heres an older post I made with thoughts on this topic of centralizing data and what could be done with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21673846
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#5What’s the coolest thing or most useful thing you’ve been able to do as a result of having all this information?
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#6Fantastic job with this! Feels like I've stumbled upon a [vastly more productive] clone of myself.
The best way I can describe this type of thinking is a very strong, overriding compulsion to think and live in an augmented, external, hivemind-like capacity. It's beautiful, but it certainly isn't normal.
It makes one wonder what the etiology of such thinking is. Were I to guess, based on personal experience: hypomania, ADHD, obsessive tendencies, indignation at tech platforms sucking so bad, technology fracturing our fucking minds. Any combination thereof.
>I'm not willing to wait till some vaporwave project reinvents the whole computing model from scratch
Sorry, turns out it's kind of hard! :)
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#7What’s the coolest thing or most useful thing you’ve been able to do as a result of having all this information?
I list my most common usecases here [0], but if I had to name just one thing, it would probably be promnesia [1].
It's an extension that I'm working on, with the purpose to actually use all this information and integrate it in my browser, like a remembrance agent.
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#8If only we had well-maintained open source projects for scraping every data type.
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#9This has been on my development todo list for a year!
What are your thoughts about allowing others to contribute new modules?
I'm interested in a my.spotify and a my.film.traktv
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#10>HPI is a Python package (named my), a collection of modules for:
- social networks: posts, comments, favorites
- reading: e-books and pdfs
- annotations: highlights and comments
- todos and notes
- health data: sleep, exercise, weight, heart rate, and other body metrics
- location
- photos & videos
- browser history
- instant messaging
I've been studying the concept of "life management software" for decades so thanks for sharing your project and I enjoyed reading your thought process.
The concepts I always think of that the idealized software would manage:
+ timeline: [past] --> [present] --> [future]
+ The Big 2: time & money
+ reflection vs growth : mining the past data for patterns and metrics -- vs -- managing and prioritizing a future wishlist to deliberately design a future life
I've come to the conclusion that it's very hard to come up with a good schema that unifies all aspects of life that's important to me. For example, looking at your list above, it is heavily populated by digital artifacts (things that happened in the past). One of the exceptions in your list that is "future" oriented would be "todos" and possibly "notes".
I'm also interested in life "situational awareness".
E.g. the other aspect of life data is money which means financial budgeting/planning. Another aspect of life data is time so a digital calendar of future events -- and goals -- is essential. Yes, I keep a list of books I've read (the "quantified self") -- but also books I plan to read in the future (designing a future version of myself a.k.a personal "growth").
There's nothing wrong with your project. I'm just explaining my observations after seeing various attempts at this over the decades. This includes 1980s software like Borland Sidekick, 1990s PIMs (Personal Information Managers) like Lotus Agenda, late 1990s PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) like Palm Pilot, 2000s software like Evernote, and a hundreds of 2010s SaaS "todo/calendar/notes" websites, or uber-geek tools like Emacs Org-mode.
None of the above really do what I want so for now, I just split my digital life across various tools and files. My daily notes in "journal.txt". My financial planning (and bank & credit card data downloads) in "budget.xls". Saved webpages in ".mhtml" files. Planned programming projects in "projects.xls". Etc.