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I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Post by NDlurker »

I wanted to do this so bad back in like 2009. I archived MSN messenger chats and my texts and everything and I figured sometime in the future I'd be able to analyze them and maybe even train a chat bot to imitate me. But over the years I lost hard drives and cell phones and accidentally deleted stuff and yeah it didn't happen. Very cool this guy was able to do it

Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Post by valzevul »

Cider9986 wrote: post #3

I mostly text on Signal with disappearing messages so I wouldn't be able to do this. Most people are fine with disappearing messages at 4 weeks, but a few people like to keep their chats forever.

Do you keep separate notes for things like recommendations or addresses? I often dig through my chats to find them.

Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Post by Cider9986 »

valzevul wrote: post #4
Cider9986 wrote: post #3

I mostly text on Signal with disappearing messages so I wouldn't be able to do this. Most people are fine with disappearing messages at 4 weeks, but a few people like to keep their chats forever.

Do you keep separate notes for things like recommendations or addresses? I often dig through my chats to find them.

Yeah I use NotesNook for big notes or projects.

I also use the Note to Self which is built into Signal and appears just like any other conversation. I use that for temporary stuff like addresses and keep it clean.

Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Post by saligne »

Cider9986 wrote: post #3

I mostly text on Signal with disappearing messages so I wouldn't be able to do this. Most people are fine with disappearing messages at 4 weeks, but a few people like to keep their chats forever.

there's a tool for extracting chat history from signal desktop, you could build a plaintext and attachment archive with that if it runs regularly on your pc and appends new chats from the last run.

Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Post by Nition »

NDlurker wrote: post #2

I wanted to do this so bad back in like 2009. I archived MSN messenger chats and my texts and everything and I figured sometime in the future I'd be able to analyze them and maybe even train a chat bot to imitate me. But over the years I lost hard drives and cell phones and accidentally deleted stuff and yeah it didn't happen. Very cool this guy was able to do it

I used to have saving turned on for my MSN Messenger chats back around 2001-2004. I didn't lose them. 10-15 years later or so I had a look through them and the cringe was so powerful that I deleted them all anyway.

Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Post by johntash »

Nition wrote: post #7
NDlurker wrote: post #2

I wanted to do this so bad back in like 2009. I archived MSN messenger chats and my texts and everything and I figured sometime in the future I'd be able to analyze them and maybe even train a chat bot to imitate me. But over the years I lost hard drives and cell phones and accidentally deleted stuff and yeah it didn't happen. Very cool this guy was able to do it

I used to have saving turned on for my MSN Messenger chats back around 2001-2004. I didn't lose them. 10-15 years later or so I had a look through them and the cringe was so powerful that I deleted them all anyway.

Sometimes I feel bad that I lost years of chat history from then too, but you made me realize that might be a good thing.
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