On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection

Re:On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection by ddw on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @02:25PM (#4070031)

I've been meaning to start a journal (will start now), but I've been using Daytum obsessively for the last year and a half.

At this point I have over 24K+ data points about my life including what I've done, consumed, people I've seen and the good and bad things that have happened to me. It can be a pain to keep up sometimes, but I have a hunch that the data becomes more valuable as time goes on.

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Re:On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection by aw3c2 on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @03:04PM (#4070250)

It creeps me out to no end that people would log such kind of data to a remote, online service they have zero control over. I hope at least you keep backups for you. But my concerns are the privacy.

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Re:On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection by will_lam on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @03:07PM (#4070271)

You can keep the data private and there is no built in "social" with Daytum. It doesn't look like the founders will be working on it anytime soon since they were "acq-hired" by Facebook. I've been using it for the last 2 years to measure and visualize my personal data.

But to each their own, I suppose.

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Re:On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection by aw3c2 on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @04:21PM (#4070625)

what if the site got hacked and exploited? do they store your data securely?

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Re:On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection by will_lam on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @04:46PM (#4108342)

It may sound foolish, but I'm not too worried about that.

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Re:On keeping a journal: 1091 days of life data collection by ddw on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @03:35PM (#4070403)

What will_lam said. I constantly download data dumps in case the website completely goes down and all of my data is private.

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