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Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by recalibrator »

buro9 wrote: post #86
rmvinfint wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds incredible! could you detail the process?? I would love to set up a similar system. @raamvi

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?

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by nhangen »

I tried to contact them to see if they'd be interested in selling, but have not heard back.

If anyone knows how to get in touch with a decision maker, contact me via my profile info.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by samir0810 »

Any of you guys know what's gonna happen to the time capsule letters? I sent one I was supposed to receive 10 years from now and I'd be bummed if that got lost "in the mail" lol. I'm afraid I know the answer to this though :(

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by kevinchen »

kalleboo wrote: post #90
MichaelApproved wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if their development team found other jobs, giving the standard 2 weeks notice. Who will maintain the servers and code for those few months? Sure, the code allowing for the export of data might seem trivial but you still need someone to maintain the system. It's almost guaranteed to need some kind of attention over a couple of months in use. Especially if the export feature was written quickly after the announce…

Dump each user's data into a ZIP file with HTML content+all the images. Now you've reduced a "keep creaky web app running" problem to "host some static files with authentication" problem. Might even be able to stick it onto S3 or something and have next-to-no maintenance. Nobody needs to be fulltime to support that, just have an hourly sysadmin on retainer to fix issues that come up and keep on top of security patche…

Since most users only have a few KB of text in OhLife, they could just run the exporter for everyone and then email them the results.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by kevinchen »

adi92 wrote: post #22

:( Been using this service for 4 years.. have grown so much thanks to it. Everybody seems to be recommending Day One as an alternative, but that looks way more complicated than a simple daily email. Edit: I take that back.. day one looks pretty awesome Found https://twitter.com/kylesethgray/status/513476424955482112 which let me import all my OhLife data into this.. and this is backed by my DropBox account which make…

I made an improved export tool that handles the line endings from OhLife correctly: https://github.com/kevin1/OhLife2DayOne

You can use Day One as an OhLife replacement by setting a notification at your email time. Then just write and ignore all the other features.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

tn13 wrote: post #69
Paul12345534 wrote: post #67

I wish the US govt. would sponsor something for citizens to store a bit about themselves and their family indefinitely. Even 20MB or 30MB per person, which seems modest and feasible, would allow people to pick a few of their most important photos and write a bit about their life for the next generations to find. I don't trust any private company to handle this well when you're talking about hundreds of years of futur…

This is laughable. Government has not incentive to properly store this information and not allow it to be misused.

In the context of what just happened to OhLife, isn't that just a little ironic?

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by mlsenn »

lancer wrote: post #40

For everyone who enjoys journaling via email, you may find DailyDiary a suitable alternative. A comparable question might be: https://www.dailydiary.com/questions/342540/how-did-your-day... Disclosure: I'm the founder. If there’s interest, I’m happy to add an import for OhLife exports.

Yes, I would be very interested. I just signed up for an account with you. I would like the import for OhLife, but do you think there's anyway that you may be able to also include past responses in the near future. For instance, including what a wrote a year ago to the email I get sent today? Thanks!

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by mlsenn »

lancer wrote: post #49
joycey wrote: post #33

This looks like a viable, albeit less functional, alternative: http://dailydiary.com/

Less functional in the sense that it doesn't support attaching a picture to replies and doesn't include a past entry in the daily reminder, but I'm happy to fast track both of those features if there's demand. Let me know if there's other features you'd like to see!

Yes, I'm incredibly interested if you can provide text from a past entry. Please save the day!

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by geographomics »

hnha wrote: post #54

Two weeks notice before a service that was meant to help "privately remember your memorable days" deleted all of those memories? Time to find out who runs this and never trust them with anything again. Two weeks is laughably short and disrespectful to your users. If at least they were open about the issue that forces them to shutdown, maybe users would be able to help out by donating to keep it online for longer? Shi…

Quite straightforward to find out who runs this, the about page is still up - http://ohlife.com/about

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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Post by gilana »

lancer wrote: post #49
joycey wrote: post #33

This looks like a viable, albeit less functional, alternative: http://dailydiary.com/

Less functional in the sense that it doesn't support attaching a picture to replies and doesn't include a past entry in the daily reminder, but I'm happy to fast track both of those features if there's demand. Let me know if there's other features you'd like to see!

I'd definitely be interested if you add the past entry -- that's the most important feature for me.
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