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My great grandfather was born in 1845. As interesting as it would be to see photos and video from his time period, I don't think I want to spend thousands of ho
by mmcgaha 4y ago
My great grandfather was born in 1845. As interesting as it would be to see photos and video from his time period, I don't think I want to spend thousands of hours going through his stuff. On the other hand if he kept a journal I would love to spend a few weeks reading about his life. I guess what I am getting at is I think we are keeping too much stuff and a curated set of things in a journal format would be a lot easier to digest. Maybe a future business will be creating documentaries from our ancestral archives.
- komali2 4y agoI journal basically daily. Once a year I do a "year compass" and part of the process is skimming all my journals. It's extremely time consuming but very valuable. Other than that I rarely look at old journals unless I need to find something i forgot. I think I'm just too busy and focused on the now. That's probably ok. I've been visiting my friend who was recently hospitalized unexpectedly and he says he's really bored all day. I feel like in his shoes that would be a good time to read and reflect on my life a bit, especially if I was nearing the end. I don't know, it doesn't really matter, the process of writing alone is valuable enough. (Plus I journal in org roam and org roamify all my entries. Maybe one day that'll be useful to me. It already has once or twice when I'm looking up prior software evaluations)
- marsten 4y agoIn raw form your journals may be more than anyone would care to read, but AI tools could make them interesting to future people. (a) Tools that synthesize down your life story and most interesting thoughts into N pages, (b) AIs that train on all that data to create a virtual version of you after you're gone (several companies already do this).