This is great. I want this but for much more. I want it to also be a nextcloud and zotero replacement, storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write. I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I press. I want a record of everything I do in the digital world that is searchable and that can answer the question: "what was I working on 2 weeks ago on this day?" and bring back all the context also.
For obvious reasons this has to be self hosted and managed. I'm not interested in creating surveillance software or technology.
It sounds extreme but whenever I have seen peoples obsidian set ups with heaps of manual and bidirectional linking I always thought that time is the one thing we should look at. If I look up some concept on wikipedia today, there is a higher chance of me looking up related concepts or working on something related to that around this time also.
Well, I can rationally evaluate their product/idea. Their idea itself for that product is fairly interesting which is why I propose a solution one can actually host and control oneself. I don't see why I would need Microsoft to do that for me. It is I who creates the data after all.
I can never find it now, but someone had an idea for a computing system which was purely temporal for every object and then you'd only access outside of temporal by filter.
This is absolutely crazy. Every secret service on this planet will be happy! They have been working so hard to get all these informations about every person. With this software they get everything delivered FOB. The united spies will make a worldwide ad campaign for your software.
> I want it to also be a nextcloud and zotero replacement, storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write.
Sounds in-scope so far. Long-term, perhaps, and maybe optional add-on features rather than built-in, but we'll see.
> I want it to record and display all browser tabs I open, when I do so, everything I copy and paste, every key I press.
That is possible in theory, but for me personally that's just too detailed. :D I wouldn't need all that granularity, myself.
But hey, the vision is pretty similar. We are generating all sorts of data to document and understand our lives -- we don't even have to deliberately write a journal -- but we have no way of comprehending it. This app is an attempt to solve that.
> That is possible in theory, but for me personally that's just too detailed. :D I wouldn't need all that granularity, myself.
I do see that. I think for that reason it would be cool to support a kind of extension system for arbitrary "collectors". And then solid filtering to filter data.
The vision is definitely similar. I am very pleasantly surprised to see your project. And I also like your ideas/roadmap on the website. I know you are building this for yourself/your family but I certainly would be open to contribute to it.
I feel like nextcloud replacement is out of scope ?
I mostly felt like Timelize was about being *behind* data-generating applications and showing and cross-referencing their data when reading the website.
I think the way is to do some sort of nextcloud extension that puts data into Timeline.
I also saw it tracks "documents" on the website but I didn't try it yet, and I would hope it can use external document sources that are already processing documents like paperless for example (which I am already using and liking)
Well, I don't plan on 1:1 feature parity with NextCloud or any comprehensive cloud suite. But I think in terms of what was mentioned: "storing all my documents and books and documenting when I added, opened, edited them. I want it to store all notes that I write," I think that's in scope.
So yes, Timelinize sits behind your current work flows. It's more of a resting place for your data (which you can still organize and curate -- more features to come in this regard), but I also can see why it might make sense to be one's primary photo library application, in the future, with more development.
As for document storage, this is still WIP, and the implementation could use more discussion to clarify the vision and specifics.
Thanks! Yes, I agree. Someone already implemented a Firefox history data source; I don't think it includes the _content_ of the pages, but that could be interesting.
It's interesting to read such a comment here. I see comments from people on this site frequently who work for Google, Facebook, OpenAI and other such companies where everyday software that doesn't respect users or their privacy is being worked on.
However, if I suggest doing similar data collection and analysis that they already do but in a way that is self hostable/governable and respects my privacy and threat model, it is bad?
This could even allow resetting the state of the computer back in time so you can pick up exactly where you left off, or undo away mistakes regardless of app, etc.
Definitely some privacy concerns but for a self ran open source thing I think it could be really cool
For obvious reasons this has to be self hosted and managed. I'm not interested in creating surveillance software or technology.
It sounds extreme but whenever I have seen peoples obsidian set ups with heaps of manual and bidirectional linking I always thought that time is the one thing we should look at. If I look up some concept on wikipedia today, there is a higher chance of me looking up related concepts or working on something related to that around this time also.