Hi Karl, nice idea! My first thoughts are a warning about big org files which can be quite slow to be processed as agenda files. Please check this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/44286
Best regards, - Rainer Am 18.07.2011 01:54, schrieb Karl Voit: > Hi! > > I need your thoughts and feedback on this idea: > > I am thinking of letting student(s) implement a (Python[1]) script > that imports[2] all kinds of data sources to generate simple (and > reduced) Org-mode heading entries and links to the original > information in order to represent the users digital life as complete > as possible. > > Imagine, you have got one (additional) «archive.org» (or > «mylife.org_archive»[8]) which contains lots of small entries that > represent many things you are doing on your computer: > > * emails you send and receive > * tweets you write > * weblog entries you write > * usenet postings you send > * files you are creating (with a datestamp in its filename) > * bookmarks you save (in delicious?) > * SVN/git commits you are committing > * SMS you send and receive (via smartphone) > * ... and much more > > With this system, you can visit any day in the past to see, what > happened in your (digital) life that time. You can reconstruct > pretty much anything you were thinking, working, ... that day. > > If you happen to know MyLifeBits[3] from MS Research, the papers > from Gemmell et al or the book «Total Recall»[4] you already know > what I am writing about: researchers implemented a (MS Windows only) > system to capture your digital life even with digital cameras and > screenshots of your desktop. > > With Org-mode and a bunch of «connectors» this should be a fairly > easy job to do. Nothing proprietary here, the amount of data is not > that much as with those binary information from MyLifeBits. > > I am thinking about a central management tool that writes the > Org-mode file(s), lets you add tags to specific sources and correct > time zone deltas caused by timestamps of services out of sync with > the time zone you are living at. > > Then there are those «connectors»: one will parse through my > maildir[5] to collect sent (and received?) emails in order to > generate something like: > > * [[file:/my/maildir/the_email][Urgend: Server just died]] :email:work: > <2010-01-17 Tue 08:12> > :PROPERTIES: > :FROM: b...@company.example.com > :END: > > Another «connector» parses my monthly backup of tweets[6] in order > to generate entries like: > > * [[http://twitter.com/status/0815][I hate dying hardware]] :tweet: > <2010-01-17 Tue 08:15> > > Parsing a source like «locate» I can filter out files I am putting > an ISO datestamp into and generate: > > * [[file:/albums/2010-01-17T08:21_rat.jpg][The rat that ate the \ > server cable]] :file: > <2010-01-17 Tue 08:21> > > With another «connector» I am parsing my weekly delicious[7] backup > and generate entries like following for all my bookmarks: > > * [[http://killrats.com][How to kill rodents]] :delicious:animals: > <2010-01-17 Tue 09:35> > > Without such a combined agenda view, you would possible never know > which different things you were «using» that day when a rat was the > source of a hardware downtime. > > This is not a new idea but as far as I know, it was never > implemented that complete outside of MyLifeBits. > > > So: is there something similar out there? Probably using Org-mode > already? > > And: what do *you* think of this idea? > > > I'd like to have a central tool that manages the connectors as > mentioned above and small and easy to implement connectors for each > data source. > > > 1. I know that you guys would like to see that in ELISP but here > at my side is sadly no ELISP knowledge available :-( > 2. Currently, only one-side-import (and no two-side sync) is > planned. > 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBitso > 4. http://totalrecallbook.com/ (I'll have to read it soon) > 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir > 6. I am using http://grabeeter.tugraz.at/ > 7. http://delicious.com > 8. In order to keep daily agenda small/fast and only «Archive mode» complete
