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Re:Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life a... by guynamedloren on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:20PM (#4337061)
Ok... so I get what the app does, but why would I want to use it? Why would I want to capture every single moment of my life, regardless of importance, forever? What do I care where I was a year ago? And why on earth would I want a "quarterly report" of my life with statistics? Honest questions. Apologies for the bluntness.
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Re:Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life a... by drumdance on Saturday August 04, 2012 @12:43AM (#4337587)
In the last couple years I've been keeping a semi-daily diary of any activity that's out of the ordinary -- seeing a movie, taking a dance class etc. It's orders of magnitude less quantified than Stephen Wolfram, but it's fascinating to read back through it every now and then.

As I've gotten older, time has sped up. Whole years seem to go by in the blink of an eye and I think, "what did I do in [say] 2007?" Keeping a diary has helped me to slow time town a bit.

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Re:Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life a... by gojomo on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:23PM (#4337074)
You could create a retrospective like Stephen Wolfram:

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

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Re:Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life a... by yukuan on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:36PM (#4337107)
Indeed! That's the direction we hope to move in with our period reports based on your entries. Nicholas Feltron was also a big inspiration for our work.
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Re:Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life a... by vhf on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:23PM (#4337071)
I don't have a clue, but Stephen Wolfram could probably answer this question : http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...
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Re:Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life a... by dwwatk01 on Friday August 03, 2012 @10:29PM (#4337263)
Being very much an obsessive over-analyzer, this data sounds terrific to me...
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Re:Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life a... by alagu on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:23PM (#4337073)
A person who has a personal diary, would really see value of this product.

Having to consolidate all my public sources and also allowing to update privately is really cool.

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