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Posted by jimspoon
Oct 5, 2011 at 02:36 AM

[This goes beyond what I’m looking to accomplish ... and may be creepy ... but I do there are good possibilities from using technology to accumulate and retain info in our daily lives.—JIM

Total recall: Data diaries explain who you really are
January 4, 2011

Source: NewScientist Opinion ? Jan 3, 2011
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Gordon Bell (photo: Dan Tufts)

Gordon Bell?s vision for the future is of software that will let you sort and sift through your digital memories to uncover patterns you would never have gleaned unaided.

You will need lifelogging hardware: a discreet camera permanently slung around your neck that can take photos at regular intervals, and a GPS device to record where you are at any time. Your phone calls, conversations and meetings will need to be digitally captured, all your emails stored, and every web page you look at downloaded. Then you will need to scan in any paper documents that head your way and refuse any books unless they are available on an e-reader.

Work, leisure and spending habits, the pattern of emotional response in various situations and around certain people, the numerous subtle factors affecting your mental well-being and physical health ? just about anything you care to know about yourself ? can be chronicled, condensed, cross-correlated and plotted out.

link: http://www.kurzweilai.net/total-recall-data-diaries-explain-who-you-really-are

[Unfortunately - I was unable to see the original New Scientist article without a subscription.]

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM

The CIA can easily do this for you now :) But in a more primitive form this is possible partly with time tracking software such as
Visual TimeAnalyzer - http://www.neuber.com/timeanalyzer/index.html
Chrometa - http://app.chrometa.com/
DeskTime http://desktime.com/

(Though I haven’t tried any of them. I use a stopwatch and a Google spreadsheet for tracking my time.)

Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Oct 7, 2011 at 07:38 AM

Here’s an article about Bell that isn’t behind a paywall http://www.fastcompany.com/node/58044/print

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