I find it funny that his earlier posts say he is "giving up social media" when he tweeted about this blog post. I question the validity of the 1091 days.
On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection
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#12I find it funny that his earlier posts say he is "giving up social media" when he tweeted about this blog post. I question the validity of the 1091 days.
:-)
It's true I have been tweeting my blog posts and posting them on facebook, as well as replying to comments about my posts on Hacker News. I feel that this falls within the guidelines I set for myself- which was to stop collecting information and produce value in my life. I don't read my Twitter or Facebook stream, and use it solely as tool for (seldomly) publishing my things I've created.
You'll notice I have only tweeted about 6 times over the past 20 days, when I was tweeting well over 50+ times a day previously.
Re: On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection
#13I find it funny that his earlier posts say he is "giving up social media" when he tweeted about this blog post. I question the validity of the 1091 days.
:-) It's true I have been tweeting my blog posts and posting them on facebook, as well as replying to comments about my posts on Hacker News. I feel that this falls within the guidelines I set for myself- which was to stop collecting information and produce value in my life. I don't read my Twitter or Facebook stream, and use it solely as tool for (seldomly) publishing my things I've created. You'll notice I have onl…
Fair point. And I'm going to try the same thing on my 30th Birthday in 6 days. And I may run naked.
Re: On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection
#14I've been meaning to start a journal (will start now), but I've been using Daytum obsessively for the last year and a half. At this point I have over 24K+ data points about my life including what I've done, consumed, people I've seen and the good and bad things that have happened to me. It can be a pain to keep up sometimes, but I have a hunch that the data becomes more valuable as time goes on.
It creeps me out to no end that people would log such kind of data to a remote, online service they have zero control over. I hope at least you keep backups for you. But my concerns are the privacy.
What will_lam said. I constantly download data dumps in case the website completely goes down and all of my data is private.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It creeps me out to no end that people would log such kind of data to a remote, online service they have zero control over. I hope at least you keep backups for you. But my concerns are the privacy.
You can keep the data private and there is no built in "social" with Daytum. It doesn't look like the founders will be working on it anytime soon since they were "acq-hired" by Facebook. I've been using it for the last 2 years to measure and visualize my personal data. But to each their own, I suppose.
what if the site got hacked and exploited? do they store your data securely?
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#16Flagrant self-promotion: if you're interested in this sort of thing, check out myscribr.com. We're all about preserving your life for future days.
We start by importing the information you're already posting to Facebook, Twitter etc. We'll send you a nightly email asking how your day went - simply reply and we'll save your response as a private entry. View your past on any day of the year, or browse through an aggregate timeline. When it suits you, you can click a few buttons and order your past in printed book form, suitable for shelving.
Re: On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection
#17Flagrant self-promotion: if you're interested in this sort of thing, check out myscribr.com. We're all about preserving your life for future days. We start by importing the information you're already posting to Facebook, Twitter etc. We'll send you a nightly email asking how your day went - simply reply and we'll save your response as a private entry. View your past on any day of the year, or browse through an aggreg…
That looks very cool. The daily reminder email is a great touch.
These are very interesting times for diary-keeping - we're leaving so many more traces of our lives around these days.
The book output option is nice. I'm thinking of this as an option for future versions of Remembary, too. Aren't these books quite big and expensive though? Or is that the point?
Re: On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can keep the data private and there is no built in "social" with Daytum. It doesn't look like the founders will be working on it anytime soon since they were "acq-hired" by Facebook. I've been using it for the last 2 years to measure and visualize my personal data. But to each their own, I suppose.
what if the site got hacked and exploited? do they store your data securely?
It may sound foolish, but I'm not too worried about that.