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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 385668 »

dannyr wrote: post #46

What does "Store it forever" mean? Would it automatically send me a formatted archive of my entries (say every week or month)? Send me a file that is automatically uploaded to Google Drive or DropBox or even just email it to me regularly.

I'd be much happier if it only kept records locally, or had the option. As creepy as... every social network has gotten, I want my privacy and anonymity back. As interesting, and potentially useful as this seems, I don't feel comfortable giving every detail of my life to a private third party to store "forever." I don't make committing crimes a habit or anything (copyright infringement not withstanding), but with the US government's position that anything you choose to store with a third party being accessible without a warrant, I'd prefer to store things locally.

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

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Post by drumdance »

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.

In the last couple years I've been keeping a semi-daily diary of any activity that's out of the ordinary -- seeing a movie, taking a dance class etc. It's orders of magnitude less quantified than Stephen Wolfram, but it's fascinating to read back through it every now and then.

As I've gotten older, time has sped up. Whole years seem to go by in the blink of an eye and I think, "what did I do in [say] 2007?" Keeping a diary has helped me to slow time town a bit.

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

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Post by yukuan »

alanh wrote: post #29
ajlburke wrote: post #27

A lot of these kinds of 'Automatic Diary' apps use Twitter feeds as a key data source (especially now that Twitter accounts are integrated directly into iOS) - is anybody else worried that this valuable source of life records might dry up if Twitter starts shutting down API access?

Sounds like a pitch for http://join.app.net ! But in seriousness: 1) If you are pulling these tweets, you should be saving them. 2) This source is already “drying up” in some sense in that you cannot access your own tweets older than 3,200 tweets ago. (That’s a number I blew by years ago. It sucks. It’s “my” data — and text, at that! — and Twitter won’t let me have it.)

We're definitely following app.net very closely, and would be quite interested in figuring out how we can integrate in the future.

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

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Post by yukuan »

doktrin wrote: post #26
tejaswiy wrote: post #22

Just curious. What's the reasoning behind this being a mobile app? Shouldn't this just primarily be a website ?

Are you asking "why mobile", or "why native, as opposed to HTML5?" The answer to the first question is obvious, IMHO. I always carry a mobile device, whereas I'm only at a computer 12-14 hours a day. As to the second, opening a web-app using a mobile browser is cumbersome and thus a fairly large barrier to adoption. The key to this app's success - as with any personal analytics tool - is continuous use.

We do have a website option btw, it's not as full-featured as the mobile app (yet), but you'll access it once you download the app.

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

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Post by wslh »

alister wrote: post #47

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 conversati…

Yes, I am a life recorder junkie and will never put my private data on the cloud. TrueCrypt is your best friend :-)

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

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Post by lukifer »

brianstorms wrote: post #54

What a pointless app. You have a brain. it processes memories. Brains have worked pretty well for millions of years recording memories. And they don't require a Terms of Service or Privacy Policy.

You mean that notoriously unreliable system which drifts over time by re-storing altered information during every recall, selectively stores some details and not others, and nearly always functions poorly during old age, the time when people would most like to tell stories and reminisce? That one?

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

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Post by alister »

wslh wrote: post #57
alister wrote: post #47

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 conversati…

Yes, I am a life recorder junkie and will never put my private data on the cloud. TrueCrypt is your best friend :-)

You should take a look at https://deniablevideo.com/ for any video you record. but for a fixed location like a home or office, since it's not a mobile device.
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