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i created a very rough app that creates monthly/weekly playlists based on your listening history for this exact purpose! getting a commercial spotify api key is impossible so i never fully finished it. https://github.com/matt-dz/hathr-backend
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I've been keeping notes in Roam Research for nearly 6 years now. Whenever I'm writing notes for that day, I'll go back to the same day 5, 4, 3, etc. years ago and see what I was working on.
I also recently went through the trouble of getting all of my running data into a spreadsheet. I started in 2018 and have gone through three different apps. Currently on my to-vibe-code-list: a little app that takes all of my runs from Apple Health and makes a neat dashboard showing pace, miles, routes, etc. over the years.
I do something slightly different. I create a new playlist every month, sometimes songs carry over from the previous month, sometimes not. New songs come in, old songs go out. I can go back to any month since late 2011 and see what I was listening to at the time.
I've decided to part ways with my physical record collection. Before putting everything up for sale on discogs I decided I will listen and sit through every record I have. Going through each brought back many memories of the times I listened to the record the most. It was enough just to take it into my hands, take it out, look at the cover.
I rarely feel anything like that when I play music via digital means. As if memories _stick_ better on physical mediums.
I listen to music as a form of enjoyment, and I can't imagine restricting the music I listen to arbitrarily, for seemingly no gain. To each their own, but it's hard for me to understand how this is making the author happy.