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Re: Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever

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Post by alagu »

guynamedloren wrote: post #8

Ok... so I get what the app does, but why would I want to use it? Why would I want to capture every single moment of my life, regardless of importance, forever? What do I care where I was a year ago? And why on earth would I want a "quarterly report" of my life with statistics ? Honest questions. Apologies for the bluntness.

A person who has a personal diary, would really see value of this product.

Having to consolidate all my public sources and also allowing to update privately is really cool.

Re: Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever

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Post by gojomo »

guynamedloren wrote: post #8

Ok... so I get what the app does, but why would I want to use it? Why would I want to capture every single moment of my life, regardless of importance, forever? What do I care where I was a year ago? And why on earth would I want a "quarterly report" of my life with statistics ? Honest questions. Apologies for the bluntness.

You could create a retrospective like Stephen Wolfram:

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

Re: Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever

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Post by CyrusL »

I got a letter in the mail recently that I wrote to myself almost 10 years ago. It was only one page long but it's ridiculous how much it moved me. I wrote about my relationship with my family and what I hoped to do with my career. Getting that brief window into my former self was amazing.

I've been using Everyday.me for about a month now and it gives me a lightweight version of that feeling. I don't record everything in my life, but I throw in the occasional photo or comment about my weekend. I probably could keep that same data in a physical scrapbook or word document, but having an iOS app makes it convenient.

For me, journaling is not really about the input; that part is tedious. I enjoy consuming the journal later, so the input is necessary. Everyday.me just makes the input a little less of a hassle.

Re: Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever

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Post by yukuan »

gojomo wrote: post #12
guynamedloren wrote: post #8

Ok... so I get what the app does, but why would I want to use it? Why would I want to capture every single moment of my life, regardless of importance, forever? What do I care where I was a year ago? And why on earth would I want a "quarterly report" of my life with statistics ? Honest questions. Apologies for the bluntness.

You could create a retrospective like Stephen Wolfram: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

Indeed! That's the direction we hope to move in with our period reports based on your entries. Nicholas Feltron was also a big inspiration for our work.

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Post by bherms »

I'm not sure I like the direction a lot of these applications seem to be going where the point of living becomes to distill all of our experiences and adventures through a 3" screen. It drives me nuts to no end when I am hiking or at a concert and everyone has to stop what they're doing and waste time trying to view what's right in front of them through their phone.

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Post by khalidmbajwa »

Apart from the printed reports, i wonder what is so different here from Path ? Path is an established app with a massive user base, that does everything i can ask from a journal,with the additional ability to share it to a private, handpicked social graph. I see no compelling reason that would make me switch to everyday.me
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