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

This is the big challenge when it comes to quantified self -- passive tracking can be creepy, but manual track has such high adoption costs. Seems like it would be hard for manual tracking to go extreme, bc few people care as much about quantifying everything as this community does. Any form of passive tracking has higher upside but also must be treated carefully so it seems trustworthy.

I totally understand that and it lines up with what I thought when I first saw the story in the front page.

I think a good way to mitigate that fear is for this guys to open source the server side of this app, allow people to easily and securely transfer their data out and expose a setting in the app to change the server it uses.

I agree.

Kevin Kelly wrote a great post about the inevitability of life logging back in 2007: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2007/02/lifelogging_a...

I can see how a "life recorder" sounds appealing, and even genuinely useful. But shouldn't we also think about how much mischief and damage could be done to your life if someone decided to comb through your "life record"?

Real-life cases of people who made extensive audio recordings of their day-to-day lives and what happened to them:

(a) High-profile private investigator Anthony Pellicano recorded all his conversations with his clients, including Sylvester Stallone and Hollywood producer Aaron Russo ("Trading Places"). Details about the tapes were leaked by the police after his office was raided on an unrelated matter.

(b) Tax-shelter promoter Gary Kornman, in his bankruptcy proceeding, was forced to reveal and turn over 8000 secret recordings he made of conversations with clients.

(c) Former U.S. President Richard Nixon installed hidden microphones in his own office so that his advisers could not claim to have disagreed with his decisions. Nixon felt that such a record was very important but the taping system trapped himself.

It's unfortunate that each of the examples above involve wrongdoing--they're the most readily found because they get the most publicity.

But I think that anyone with a continuous record of their life will be vulnerable to being screwed over in some way. It could be as simple finding instances where you said or did anything that was contradictory to your current opinions and beliefs.

Putting the data in the cloud, and under the control of a third party, makes it that much worse to being exposed.

A "life recorder" that was completely and utterly under your own control would make more sense.

What's the business model ensuring the "forever" part?