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Re: OhLife is shutting down

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It's less a process and more an accumulation. For Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.... backs up all calls and SMS to Google Calendar and Gmail respectively. IFTTT can copy the SMS messages from Gmail to Google Calendar. I label the GMails, and copy them to a distinct calendar. I run an IFTTT to detect calendar attachments on email and copy those to a distinct calendar. I run a perso…

So you merge all the separate calendars into one to get the complete story? This is fascinating stuff. Have you read the book "Experience Curating" by chance?

Precisely that... I view all calendars at once for the holistic view, but even zoomed out I can see from the density of each calendar's colour roughly what was occurring when.

Inspiration came from two things:

1) Hearing about Stephen Wolfram documenting/logging every conversation.

2) Learning to meditate, and my first attempt at this was to label every thought I had and collate things together in my head

I figured I could log the stream of events that occurred in life, and label everything and collate things.

There are lots of subtle advantages. And it does seem that the book you mentioned ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Experience-Curating-Increase-Influen... ) is a very similar concept to what I'm doing. No, I hadn't read it or heard of other people (beyond Stephen Wolfram) doing anything like this.

I don't use spreadsheets though... I consider time as being the primary key for all information. From that point of view, the storage should be a time based system.

That stems from how I personally recall things. I recall consuming music as a chronology of life... play a song and I know what I listened to in the months before, months after, where I was, who with, how I felt, what I was up to. But time is the thing there, the expansion of the pinpoint into a line stretching forward and backward provides all the extra context. I log way more than I need to because it's so effortless to do so.

I should've added another of the small processes as I added a few bookmarks today and remembered that I hadn't mentioned this one. I use pinboard and bookmarks are pulled from the RSS and put into yet another calendar.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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I have 1161 entries dating back to my first on August 18, 2010. I really love the service, but understand if they have to shut it down. Thanks to the founders for keeping such an easy-to-use service around for so long. I'm off to find an alternative. My list of features isn't long. A daily email with a reminder and a previous post from the last year, month or week. It's that simplicity that kept me using the service.

I have offered to buy but they have not returned my emails, so we're going to build our own version and offer an import feature. Will be housed at http://everymoment.me as soon as we have something ready to go.

Please lety me know when you do!! email me inaki@axitia.com

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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I just open sourced a project at http://dabble.me/ which is my attempt to be a 1-for-1 OhLife replacement.

It doesn't have the email built-in, but I plan on building that out over the next few days.

It does have an OhLife importer and you can add new entries through the web user interface.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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post #152

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I have offered to buy but they have not returned my emails, so we're going to build our own version and offer an import feature. Will be housed at http://everymoment.me as soon as we have something ready to go.

Please lety me know when you do!! email me inaki@axitia.com

They never replied to email or social message, so we're building a replacement that will allow people to import Ohlife entries. We plan to make them a little more secure as well.
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