The idea is definitely in the air, but I guess its hard right know to come up with practical use cases. I mean I do believe and want to control my digital trace, but at the end of the day I don't know what to do with it except maybe visualize it on virtual whiteboards like Temin - the project showcased among others several threads above.

For privacy maniacs, of course it would be awesome to add functionality and destroy your traces, but I doubt you could achieve it with current API's.

Also interesting maybe to produce high-level analysis of your personality traits based on messages-comments-articles you write (but to use how later - I am not sure)

I was just going to say you should lookup this - https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html - a page I bookmarked and have kept at the back of my head, and turns out it's you!

I have a strong personal need for such a system. I have severe chronic pain that severely disrupts my executive function, and so it's hard to mentally self-direct - so having a visual map of data interconnectivity, where in part I could set view layers based on priority (hide or show different data depending on say if viewing "holistic view" vs. a "project" that's arguably data that's tagged with a project name, etc.

I'm also wanting to write a book on my journal with health and healing, among other things system-society wide that influence health - and allowed my situation to exist and dis-ease progression to occur - and so having a singular system for me to access things like my bookmarks, notes in Notes app, emails filtered based on tags, my comments on HN/Reddit/etc. would really help in allowing me to start to organize and compile different data; perhaps a way to add a non-impacting link between different pieces of data, e.g. say there's a topic in the book related to food and/or water fasting - I could start to interlink all of that content first with links, then another step in the process perhaps with version control integrated - so I can archive a previous/unedited version, keeping the polished/updated version (or multiple data files amalgamated) but linking to their sources/prior versions, etc.

Your project could easily fit into a broader project/effort of mine, though I've not been able to execute on it yet - I've been able to plan, develop the vision, and done surface level things so far only. I have a surgery January 11th that may reduce my pain by 50%+ and hopefully my executive function returns at least some; my pain situation is more than just relating to this surgery, another major source of pain, arguably the primary source, doesn't have a treatment yet - not clinically available anyhow. After the surgery I'd love to chat and share what I'm doing with my projects and feel out what possibilities may exist.

I am very interested in this space. Thank you for sharing those links!

I've recently started following Paul Bricman's work "Thoughtware" https://paulbricman.com/thoughtware

I created a discord server called Awesome Knowledge Management https://discord.gg/XPNeDSQE2j

Let's chat!!

Your work (and gyroscope/stethscope/other aggregators) has inspired me to also start my own work at creating a centralized aggregator to ingest all of my data.