There's this web app that sifts through my Facebook and then sends me an "On This Day" email every night at ten o'clock. You know, like, on this day two years ago, you posted a funny status about the burrito you were eating. On this day four years ago, you were tagged in a picture at that one party. On this day last year, you were wandering the streets of Brooklyn. There's something I really like about dredging up these little moments from the past, about finding an old wall post or a status and remembering what life was like when it was written.
I'm sure it's not technically the correct term for this game, but I like to think of it as egopaleontology- the study of your own ancient life.
Go back far enough, and it all feels that way, taking a few out of context comments and trying to reconstruct a life, filling in the large gaps of my memory with photo and video evidence and one-half of a conversation. It helps paint a more complete picture- but when I think I remember something, it's occasionally that I really just remember reading something about it on Facebook years later.
I just wonder sometimes if having all of this history at my fingertips is entirely a good thing. I wonder if maybe it skews my perspective and makes me remember the past as better than it actually was. You know? Because Facebook is full of all the fun, exciting things that people do, but it effortlessly glosses over all of the boring or sad or embarrassing parts. You never get an email that reminds you how three years ago, you sat in your apartment all weekend in sweatpants and played video games. Or how two years ago, you went home with someone because you had no self-esteem and you thought that would fix it. Or that four years ago, you walked into a party, didn't know anyone, had a panic attack in the bathroom, and snuck back out three minutes later.
All of these moments get airbrushed out, swept under the rug in favor of pithy jokes about DrawSomething or the one picture of the night where nobody looked too drunk.
I've never been very good at letting go of the past, be it a city or a bar or an album or a person. I'm usually okay with that- most of my life it's fallen to me to be the record keeper, the person my friends turn to when they can't remember a specific detail, and I get a lot of satisfaction out of being that person. But I think sometimes I romanticize the past too much, and when I compare the reality of now to my memories of way back when, I end up dissatisfied. I hold onto things that don't mean anything anymore because I've attached some great significance to their history. I've gotten better at moving forward in some ways, but I think I'll always struggle with forward motion.
("It's simple," so says the captain. "Face forward. Move slow. Forge ahead.")
Otherwise, life is good. Ridin' the highs and diggin' the lows,
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I just found this app tonight on Android and downloaded it. It looks pretty neat. You can sync your Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram to it so it's part of your private journal. They need to add Tumblr! I share most of my interesting stuff here. :)
PS It's FREE for Android, but the iOS version for iPhone and iPod touch is $3.99. Weird!
This is one of the new everyday.me design concept, when user’s data getting bigger and bigger, the harder they could find their treasure moment , so I make it a collapse mode , highlight the most tagged tag with monthly photo.
Everyday,me invite me to redesign the whole new look and feel of their app, everyday.me is a personal journal that let user record all the things in their daily life , it's such a pity that the team decide to pivot two month ago, and my design would never implement anymore, but you could still find them on app store/google play.
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Everyday.me for the iPhone is like a Facebook timeline for you, and you alone. You get to generate a massive combined timeline of all your Tweets and Facebook statuses in the past. It's very similar to Momento, which I have been using for the past year. Just like Momento, you can write entries to be viewed in the app, or import your existing social media feeds. For now, the app only supports Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
It seems easier to glance through your feeds in Everyday.me because you can scroll through it endlessly back in time, but there doesn't seem to be a way to go to a specific date like in Momento.
Another difference is the ability to view your feed online in a web browser, which also means your feed is backed up in the cloud. Momento does not do this, but it allows you to back up your data through iTunes file transfer. Another interesting feature is the quaterly/annual reports, where you receive a summary of what you've been up to all these months.
It's not yet available on the AppStore, but you can sign up for a private beta at Everyday.me.
