Ep. 271
The deep dive discusses the modern frustration of having digital memories scattered across various platforms, such as photos on one cloud, memes on Facebook Messenger, and run data on Strava. This fragmentation makes it difficult to piece together a cohesive personal history. To address this issue, the deep dive introduces timelinize, an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to unify all digital data into a single, controllable archive. Timelinize aims to liberate personal data from corporate-controlled cloud services, ensuring that users have full control over their digital history. The tool imports data from various sources, including Google, Facebook, and Strava, and organizes it into a unified timeline. Users can explore their data through different views, such as a timeline, gallery, 3D map, and dashboard bubble chart. The deep dive also highlights the importance of data sovereignty and the potential future of decentralized, self-hosted timelinize that could create a comprehensive record of human history without relying on centralized corporate servers.