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In 2016 I created a telegram bot to make it super easy for me to keep daily diary, and I still use it now: https://t.me/DaytobaseBot https://t.me/DaytobaseBot

In 2016 I created a telegram bot to make it super easy for me to keep daily diary, and I still use it now: https://t.me/DaytobaseBot https://t.me/DaytobaseBot Similar to other folks in the thread, I sometimes go back to old entries and reflect on how my life has changed. I find that my memory constantly simplifies and idealizes the past, and getting to see how it really felt day to day is very helpful.

hoherd 3y ago
Do you happen to have the source code publicly available?
- martinthenext 3y ago
  Yes ofc: https://github.com/martinthenext/daytobase https://github.com/martinthenext/daytobase It is extremely old but probably trivial to upgrade to recent Python. There is also a serverless version [1] and a recently attempted Rust version. I will most likely spend a few hours some weekend writing a Node version soon -- please let me know if you beat me to it :) [1]: https://github.com/2mol/daytobase https://github.com/2mol/daytobase
bambax 3y ago
In October 2019 I made a bit that emails me every day and stores the replies in an SQLite database. I narrate each day the following morning, and aslo store random pieces of information (story of a debugging session, opinions on books I read or movies I watch, etc.) I have missed almost zero days since the beginning. One of the most useful feature of this system is to store things people that I meet rarely, tell me. When I meet them again, years later, I can pick up the conversation where it was. Other than that, I rarely go back to read old entries. I sometimes wonder what use AI could make of this.
- martinthenext 3y ago
  Wow, very similar to what I have been doing but sounds like you had way more consistency. My bot does not remind me to write, it's a neat idea. I was wondering about adding a trivial Langchain+LLaMa thing to it to chat to my old memories, would be cool to explore this indeed

hoherd 3y ago

Do you happen to have the source code publicly available?

martinthenext 3y ago
Yes ofc: https://github.com/martinthenext/daytobase https://github.com/martinthenext/daytobase It is extremely old but probably trivial to upgrade to recent Python. There is also a serverless version [1] and a recently attempted Rust version. I will most likely spend a few hours some weekend writing a Node version soon -- please let me know if you beat me to it :) [1]: https://github.com/2mol/daytobase https://github.com/2mol/daytobase

bambax 3y ago

In October 2019 I made a bit that emails me every day and stores the replies in an SQLite database. I narrate each day the following morning, and aslo store random pieces of information (story of a debugging session, opinions on books I read or movies I watch, etc.) I have missed almost zero days since the beginning. One of the most useful feature of this system is to store things people that I meet rarely, tell me. When I meet them again, years later, I can pick up the conversation where it was. Other than that, I rarely go back to read old entries. I sometimes wonder what use AI could make of this.

martinthenext 3y ago
Wow, very similar to what I have been doing but sounds like you had way more consistency. My bot does not remind me to write, it's a neat idea. I was wondering about adding a trivial Langchain+LLaMa thing to it to chat to my old memories, would be cool to explore this indeed