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

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This is amazing.

I am putting as much as i can into my TODO+archive database (see https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki/Live-demo#workou... ), and it is pretty neat already for analysis with querying and visualization. But your stuff is orders of magnitude bigger. Possibly I will set up HPI for myself some day.

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

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My version of this is called Dogsheep, and involves building tools that suck my data from various sources into SQLite databases so I can query it all using Datasette. https://dogsheep.github.io/ I enjoyed reading this author's essay on why he doesn't think loading everything into relational databases is the best approach: https://beepb00p.xyz/unnecessary-db.html I think I have a workarounds for most of the issues he…

Wow, Datasette is super useful.

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

#83

This is amazing. I am putting as much as i can into my TODO+archive database (see https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki/Live-demo#workou... ), and it is pretty neat already for analysis with querying and visualization. But your stuff is orders of magnitude bigger. Possibly I will set up HPI for myself some day.

Looks cool! HPI is more about accessing data, so it should be possible to combine the projects. I was thinking of using Grafana too, and adding an automatic influxdb integration (via https://github.com/karlicoss/cachew, which I'm already using for sqlite), so let me know if you set up something! :)

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

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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…

Yeah, I have no problem not having my IMs from 15 years ago. If it doesn't fit in my brain or crucial enough to commit to backup then it's best to let those bits disappear for me.

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

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> Which parts of my city have I yet to explore? > Can I search all my conversation with John across 3 messaging apps, email, SMS and phone? These are totally pain points for me / questions I'd love to have some answers for... Anyone tried to get the historic iOS location data to answer the first question?

If you live in Europe it should be possible..?

The GDPR says you can get access to your data. It doesn't say it should be available in a convenient, computer-friendly format.

Google Takeout gives me my location history, but getting it is a manual process.

Banks must offer an API. I just haven't looked into it yet.

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

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post #55

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If you live in Europe it should be possible..?

The GDPR says you can get access to your data. It doesn't say it should be available in a convenient, computer-friendly format. Google Takeout gives me my location history, but getting it is a manual process. Banks must offer an API. I just haven't looked into it yet.

Bank APIs are kind of usable it seems, at least I can now see most of my accounts across all banks I ever used from my main bank.

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

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Cool, that's similar to my project Timeliner: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner It downloads your data from social media (or other online sites) into a single sqlite database. It can even draw relations between various accounts/people. I use it to back up my Google Photos.

There's also heedy: https://heedy.org/

And Perkeep https://perkeep.org/, and Memex https://hyfen.net/memex/, and a bunch of others...

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

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The linked post and video (including a demo) of Andrew Louis's 'Memex' project is really neat as well! Really cool interface there: https://hyfen.net/memex/

Memex is really awesome, I'm excited to see more of these solutions being developed with different approaches.

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

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post #66
post #48

My version of this is called Dogsheep, and involves building tools that suck my data from various sources into SQLite databases so I can query it all using Datasette. https://dogsheep.github.io/ I enjoyed reading this author's essay on why he doesn't think loading everything into relational databases is the best approach: https://beepb00p.xyz/unnecessary-db.html I think I have a workarounds for most of the issues he…

Cool, that's similar to my project Timeliner: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner It downloads your data from social media (or other online sites) into a single sqlite database. It can even draw relations between various accounts/people. I use it to back up my Google Photos.

Oh wow that's awesome. This sounds a lot like my project, in philosophy and practice: https://github.com/NickSto/life-browser

I've focused on Google Takeout exports so far. Only gotten Hangouts and Voice working at this point.

I feel like all of us need to be working on a common codebase for all these parsers. I just found out a week ago that the Hangouts format changed significantly and totally broke my parser (which I actually adapted from https://bitbucket.org/dotcs/hangouts-log-reader/)

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