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Comment by guynamedloren | Hacker News Reader

Ok... so I get what the app does, but why would I want to use it? Why would I want to capture every single moment of my life, regardless of importance, forever? What do I care where I was a year ago? And why on earth would I want a "quarterly report" of my life with statistics? Honest questions. Apologies for the bluntness.

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In the last couple years I've been keeping a semi-daily diary of any activity that's out of the ordinary -- seeing a movie, taking a dance class etc. It's orders of magnitude less quantified than Stephen Wolfram, but it's fascinating to read back through it every now and then.

As I've gotten older, time has sped up. Whole years seem to go by in the blink of an eye and I think, "what did I do in [say] 2007?" Keeping a diary has helped me to slow time town a bit.

You could create a retrospective like Stephen Wolfram:

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

Indeed! That's the direction we hope to move in with our period reports based on your entries. Nicholas Feltron was also a big inspiration for our work.

I don't have a clue, but Stephen Wolfram could probably answer this question : http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

Being very much an obsessive over-analyzer, this data sounds terrific to me...

A person who has a personal diary, would really see value of this product.

Having to consolidate all my public sources and also allowing to update privately is really cool.

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