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I put my whole life into a single database

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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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This post is interesting, but the whole project seems like a vanity project to put on your resume. I’d argue that it’s peak vanity project. Once you have the basics of collect>summarise>publish metrics, it’s trivial to add just one more. Do people really need every single aspect of their lives measurable to this degree? Does anyone (other than your mother) really care? I, for one, would hate for this to become a thin…

I also feel like it gets to a roundaboutway of 'proving' things people already know. More sleep is nicer, unless it's so long it's bc you're sick. Drinking more means more dancing. Days when you sit all day working are less fun than walking around with friends (and, of course, not working then) I feel like keeping a rough journal and manually revisiting would be more helpful than quantifying and correlating. But fina…

True, but it seems like it would be nice to know where to draw the lines. More sleep is good, but how much more? Etc.

Sometimes, it feels like there's so much going on that it's hard to know if it was the sleep, the diet, the events, or something else. That's where the data might be nice.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Neat, and interesting that his conclusion is that it's too much effort to do for oneself. My take on this is Timelinize[0], which is capable of downloading all your data from various digital records like social media, your phone, arbitrary files and unstructured folders, your Google account, etc. So it can aggregate data from Google Photos, Location History, Twitter, Facebook, text messages, and more, onto your compu…

Thanks for sharing Timelinize and Timeliner. It's always great to meet other people in this space. My own take on this problem is Chronomize [0], which I've been working on since 2020. It's interesting how we independently came up with similar names. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat about personal data management. [0]: https://chronomize.com

Ooo. I signed up for updates. (Your website looks a lot nicer than mine ever will!)

I like your projects' name better too... would still like to see if I can find a better one for mine that is available.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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This project is super cool. I would recommend the author starts tracking the amount of CO2 he emits in a year, which could easily be approximated with the flight/transportation and food data he has. Carbon emissions per Capita per year in the US: 18 metric tonnes. In Italy: 8 metric tonnes [1]. Author is probably close to 60-80 with all the transatlantic flights.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02...

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Wow that's impressive. I've been thinking about doing this too. How do you ensure that you consistently track? Automated pings? Physical buttons/sensors at your desk or I guess computer uptime maybe. Other thing is did you have any concerns about making this info public, I guess it's not locating you exactly.

One thing I've thought of is that on android, it's not so hard to get app usage in a custom app, as a proxy for being on the phone. So it could check if you've been on your phone for 15+ minutes and then ping you only then. It would take some app -> server -> telegram app communication

Wonder if you could do it with Flutter. For me it's a bit of an investment to learn Kotlin/Swift just for this. Tried in the past Android is a beast imo but my opinion is low as I'm primarily a web dev.
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