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

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Post by AJRF »

graphpapa wrote: post #29
AJRF wrote: post #26

Polar opposite - Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia? I feel like I might be a little weird here, but every so often I'll just go in and delete all my notes, reminders, apps, photos, etc and start again. Wondering if anyone else does this? I like doing it because it helps clear my head, even though the files or data are digital they take up some space in my head. I do it every few months, just have a fresh slate. I won…

I do something halfway in between - i routinely get frustrated with everything that’s not relevant to my present concerns, and just throw it into a folder called ‘archive’ and then move THAT into the big central archive folder. I never really look back through any of it but when I do it’s quite nostalgic.

I should probably start doing this for the (very) few times over the years I've regretted deleting something.

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

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Post by Neph »

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't have yet implemented. (Twitter archive, messages, etc)

Some examples of things already implemented:

- Raspberry Pi Touchscreen on my desk with dashboards

-> Calendar

-> Financial Dashboard (Net Worth, Stocks, Expenses)

-> Reminders (ongoing to do list, train delays etc)

-> Dashboard with my indoor air quality/temp and plant sensor

- Self made night light + alarm clock

-> Calculates time I need to go to bed to get 8 hours of sleep and indicates it with a red light.

-> In the morning triggers alarm and reads highlight, light shows weather forecast

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

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Post by pjc50 »

AJRF wrote: post #26

Polar opposite - Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia? I feel like I might be a little weird here, but every so often I'll just go in and delete all my notes, reminders, apps, photos, etc and start again. Wondering if anyone else does this? I like doing it because it helps clear my head, even though the files or data are digital they take up some space in my head. I do it every few months, just have a fresh slate. I won…

I think I'm with the sibling commentators: deleting something when I could keep it feels like an obliteration, a destruction, a waste; on the other hand, realistically I don't need it and am almost certainly never going to look at it again. Almost. But if I did and wanted to and couldn't, I'd probably feel loss.

So I chuck it in an archive. Gradually expanding storage at low prices means never having to think about deletion.

I don't use any of the systems for sharing tabs or history across browsers, because each has a different set of almost abandoned tabs. Sometimes "tab bankruptcy" is forced on me by software failure, and it's frustrating.

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

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Post by the_duke »

karlicoss wrote: post #15
samanator wrote: post #9

This 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

I don't mind merging new modules at the moment, so would be happy if you try it out and contribute! But it's also possible to use your module without merging in the upstream HPI package [0] In the long run, I'm not sure how sustainable it is, since there are many different data sources and ways of representing them. This is also particularly difficult when you don't use the service, e.g. as a maintaner I wouldn't hav…

> since there are many different data sources and ways of representing them

I've been working on something quite similar for a while (in Rust).

I decided to normalize data to schema.org types where available and store JSON-LD documents in a key/value store. While the schema.org types are far from perfect, it at least morphs data into a standardized format.

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

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Post by the_duke »

amelius wrote: post #8

If only we had well-maintained open source projects for scraping every data type.

Yes please.

I've been working on something quite similar to this project (in Rust), and I had the same need.

I started tinkering with a library + DSL that describes data fetching and transformation, where all data is transformed into schema.org types.

The DSL can then be either interpreted or client code generated for various languages.

This would potentially make such a API collection library much more feasible.

Sadly such a DSL turns out to be more of a full programming language if all requirements are covered.

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

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Post by jasode »

AJRF wrote: post #26

Polar opposite - Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia? I feel like I might be a little weird here, but every so often I'll just go in and delete all my notes, reminders, apps, photos, etc and start again. Wondering if anyone else does this? I like doing it because it helps clear my head, even though the files or data are digital they take up some space in my head. I do it every few months, just have a fresh slate. I won…

>Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia?

I think most people would want amnesia for certain memories like traumatic events. E.g. a romantic interest rejected you, or football quarterback throws an interception and needs to forget it to fully concentrate on the next play.

For most things, I wish I had more digital documentation of my past life. There were places I visited once that I wish I had photos for. There were people that were important in my life but I forgot their names and never wrote them down. I started keep a daily journal for the last 10 years and it's been so useful that I wish I had been doing that since I was child. If I had a git repo for everything single piece of code I wrote since I was a kid, that would be cool for me to revisit.

Back to your point, another type of purge that's useful are open projects that just nag you. For example, I had a "home automation" project on my todo list for years. In addition to taking space in brain, there were half-assembled open boxes of electronics on the shelf for years as physical reminders of that unfinished task. I finally decided to be realistic about my enthusiasm for that project and just abandon it. I sold the electronics and I feel better now. If I later decide to tackle it again, there will be newer and better technology anyway.

I also had a bookshelf of foreign languages for years that I thought I'd learn for foreign travel. After the COVID-19 crisis, I decided to give them away since I won't be traveling overseas for years. Now their absence no longer remind me of things I never got around to.

Purging bad emotions and unrealistic projects -- yes. Purging life data -- generally no.

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

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Post by jotm »

AJRF wrote: post #26

Polar opposite - Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia? I feel like I might be a little weird here, but every so often I'll just go in and delete all my notes, reminders, apps, photos, etc and start again. Wondering if anyone else does this? I like doing it because it helps clear my head, even though the files or data are digital they take up some space in my head. I do it every few months, just have a fresh slate. I won…

I do it with tabs in the browser... if there's like 30-40 of them (usually for "reading later and saving any good info"), yeah they get closed. I've yet to miss something...

Notes, not really, there's a ton of them in Keep so I look up some stuff from time to time.

I have a massive collection in OneNote notebooks, and once a year it seems I check them and remember some good stuff, but mostly just how dumb I was before :D

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