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I can't even find a calendar that lets me enter where I'm leaving from to get to an event and where I'm heading after it to add the travel time automatically, with a specified margin of error.

Much less can I export the details of my activity from my smart watch or my web browsing history so I can easily review my day and figure out what happened and why.

Calendars suck at being calendars. We're not even close to ready to have them be repositories.

What I wouldn't give to be able to export logs from everything I use that keeps logs and map them to a calendar...as long as I have control of the data.

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Google calendar supports travel time. https://www.howtogeek.com/839258/how-to-add-travel-time-to-a...

It doesn't do what I said, though. Try it. It doesn't let me specify anything about the return trip. It also doesn't support adding it for recurring events, even if I always expect to leave from the same place.

It's also extremely glitchy, so I wouldn't even be generous enough to call it "supports" even for the features it does try to have.

Clockwise gets the closest I've seen to the travel time piece specifically.

So something like rescuetime that exports data from your active programs to a calendar/event timeline visualization a la the spotify example from the article?

That would be one component, yes!

I'm thinking of some sort of standard history export format that can be overlaid onto a calendar. The Spotify history bar mockup would be one example. My browser history could be another one. So could the various data tracked by my smartwatch.

It would transform the calendar from something that is only used for planning the future to something that helps us recall the past.

We know this data is out there. Shoot, companies use it to build marketing profiles of us all the time. It would just be cool to be able to build such a profile about ourselves so we could review our decisions and evaluate our choices.

I feel like the quantified life folks would be all over this!

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