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I’d differ. Recall is more akin to what Rewind AI[1] is building. I don’t care to know what happened in a chat box in my Zoom call last Friday. I just want to b

I’d differ. Recall is more akin to what Rewind AI[1] is building. I don’t care to know what happened in a chat box in my Zoom call last Friday. I just want to be able to explore structured data that I have generated across different services. For example, Nike Run Club offers some stats on the app but I’d like to be able to do more. Spotify shows me I follow this artist but I’d like to know since when have I followed them. YouTube has my watch history but I’d like to be able to process what kind of content I was consuming during a certain time period. [1]: https://www.rewind.ai/ https://www.rewind.ai/

solardev 2y ago
So not a point in time snapshot to go back to, but natural language analysis of aggregate data? I can see how that'd be useful.
- thatgurjot 2y ago
  Exactly! Consider you have an SQLite database on your computer with your aggregated data from Strava, Spotify, and everything else. You do whatever you want with it. The app will come with a GUI that will allow some additional analysis or querying but you do your thing if you like!
  - solardev 2y ago
    Yeah, that'd be cool. I'd love to feed it my fitness, health, etc. data. I feel like it was always a missed opportunity with Google... they had all my Google Fit, Google Health, 23andme, Gmail (and thus order confirmations, healthcare appointments), text messages, Google Maps locations, etc. data that I expressly opted-in for, hoping that one day they'd be able to use that to provide actionable insights. But nope, it was all just ads and spam :(
    - thatgurjot 2y ago
      Yup! Are there any specific services that you use regularly? Ones that you would like to use in this “god app”? For me it is: Nike Run Club, Firefox, Omnivore, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Health.
      - solardev 2y ago
        Yes, Google Fit and Google Maps (now that the timeline data is on-device). I also use RideWithGPS instead of Strava, but never tried to see if it has historical ride data. But the big one for me is really Google Maps location history. It's tracked everywhere I've been for the last 15 or so years, down to the hour, and it's really useful for figuring out when exactly a certain trip was, or that car accident, or the last time I visited a friend or whatever.
        thatgurjot 2y ago
        Ah that’s quite an interesting use case. I have never used Google Maps as extensively - very point to point usage for me. But I’ll check their API out! Thanks for sharing!
        solardev 2y ago
        FYI, before you go digging too far, the shift to on-device Timeline storage was recent (last month or so), so I don't know if they have a public API for interacting with it yet. Prior to that, it was a proprietary in-app thing that lived only in the cloud and could only be accessed via the web or mobile apps. I am not sure what format that on-device data is, or if it might be accessible via Google Takeout (their data export platform) instead of an API.
        thatgurjot 2y ago
        Oh I see. Thanks for letting me know. If it’s obscured behind a cloud like Nike Run Club now, there might still be a way. But maybe I’ll start with simpler services with an existing public API like Strava :)

solardev 2y ago

So not a point in time snapshot to go back to, but natural language analysis of aggregate data? I can see how that'd be useful.

thatgurjot 2y ago
Exactly! Consider you have an SQLite database on your computer with your aggregated data from Strava, Spotify, and everything else. You do whatever you want with it. The app will come with a GUI that will allow some additional analysis or querying but you do your thing if you like!
- solardev 2y ago
  Yeah, that'd be cool. I'd love to feed it my fitness, health, etc. data. I feel like it was always a missed opportunity with Google... they had all my Google Fit, Google Health, 23andme, Gmail (and thus order confirmations, healthcare appointments), text messages, Google Maps locations, etc. data that I expressly opted-in for, hoping that one day they'd be able to use that to provide actionable insights. But nope, it was all just ads and spam :(
  - thatgurjot 2y ago
    Yup! Are there any specific services that you use regularly? Ones that you would like to use in this “god app”? For me it is: Nike Run Club, Firefox, Omnivore, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Health.
    - solardev 2y ago
      Yes, Google Fit and Google Maps (now that the timeline data is on-device). I also use RideWithGPS instead of Strava, but never tried to see if it has historical ride data. But the big one for me is really Google Maps location history. It's tracked everywhere I've been for the last 15 or so years, down to the hour, and it's really useful for figuring out when exactly a certain trip was, or that car accident, or the last time I visited a friend or whatever.
      - thatgurjot 2y ago
        Ah that’s quite an interesting use case. I have never used Google Maps as extensively - very point to point usage for me. But I’ll check their API out! Thanks for sharing!
        solardev 2y ago
        FYI, before you go digging too far, the shift to on-device Timeline storage was recent (last month or so), so I don't know if they have a public API for interacting with it yet. Prior to that, it was a proprietary in-app thing that lived only in the cloud and could only be accessed via the web or mobile apps. I am not sure what format that on-device data is, or if it might be accessible via Google Takeout (their data export platform) instead of an API.
        thatgurjot 2y ago
        Oh I see. Thanks for letting me know. If it’s obscured behind a cloud like Nike Run Club now, there might still be a way. But maybe I’ll start with simpler services with an existing public API like Strava :)