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All your digital life on a single timeline, stored locally -- DEPRECATED, SEE TIMELINIZE (link below)

29 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 5 stories, 24 comments · first 2019-01-20 · latest 2023-08-31

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  1. …PhotoStructure, but there are a ton of alternatives, as well). FWIW, I also tried this software: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner -- it does what it can, but the files you get via the API has a bunch of metadata stripped from it. I even…
    comment by mceachen · 2023-08-31 · in I Ditched Google Photos
  2. …[1]) in my spare time! Did you build the timeline UI yourself? Can it be used as a library? [0]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner [1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize
    comment by mholt · 2022-06-20 · in Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
  3. …timelines and the wider world. [0]: https://twitter.com/timelinize (No actual website yet.) [1]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
    comment by mholt · 2022-04-28 · in I put my whole life into a single database
  4. …to share later this year. [1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize (website coming eventually) [2]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
    comment by mholt · 2022-03-23 · in Start Self Hosting
  5. …writing its successor, Timelinize [1], to download all my family's stuff to our own computer. [0]: https://github.com/mholt/Timeliner [1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize
    comment by mholt · 2022-01-18 · in Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
  6. …compilation. And it easily manages Timeline databases of a million and more entries just fine. [1]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner [2]: https://twitter.com/timelinize
    comment by mholt · 2021-12-29 · in Consider SQLite
  7. …or even automating web browser interactions, but those have their own problems too.) [1]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
    comment by mholt · 2020-11-11 · in Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
  8. …requires you to download them, though) 2. Set up rclone ( https://rclone.org/ ) or timeliner ( https://github.com/mholt/timeliner ) to use the Photos API. Note that _many_ tags may be missing, scrambled, or wrong. GPS will be completely…
    comment by mceachen · 2020-10-25 · in Ask HN: How do you back up Google Photos?
  9. …of Timeliner. It doesn't have good Google ranking, so it was a bit buried. I think this is it: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner Timeliner is a personal data aggregation utility. It collects all your digital things from pretty much…
    comment by ydant · 2020-10-24 · in Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption
  10. …about Timeliner; Matt Holt's attempt at solving some of the data sourcing / data silo problems. https://github.com/mholt/timeliner He also points out Perkeep: https://perkeep.org/ Anyway. Data liberation is a huge driver for me. Making it…
    comment by scrollaway · 2020-06-28 · in Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history
  11. Cool, that's similar to my project Timeliner: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner It downloads your data from social media (or other online sites) into a single sqlite database. It can even draw relations between various accounts/people. I…
    comment by mholt · 2020-05-08 · in Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life
  12. https://github.com/mholt/timeliner is the script I referenced, and it does incremental backups. It is limited by what Google's API exposes, though, so what you get back is not what you uploaded: it's got many tags stripped, including GPS.…
    comment by mceachen · 2020-04-12 · in YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
  13. …of trying to be this, as something you run yourself to protect against disappearing cloud services: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
    comment by mikepurvis · 2020-01-27 · in Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
  14. For preserving at least your own data, check out one of my projects, Timeliner: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner It downloads your digital life and stores it locally on a single, unified timeline, for archival and family history purposes.
    comment by mholt · 2019-11-27 · in Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users
  15. You can use https://github.com/mholt/timeliner (open source)
    comment by mceachen · 2019-11-21 · in Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
  16. …you using s3? Your costs might be lower using glacier or backblaze. You should also take a look at https://github.com/mholt/timeliner . Open source, easy to install, runs locally for free. Worked perfectly on my very large library.…
    comment by mceachen · 2019-11-21 · in Show HN: Pixaver – Google Photos backups made super easy
  17. …any new photos to my computer. I'm away from my PC right now but I'm pretty sure it was this: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
    comment by DevoidSimo · 2019-10-22 · in Google clamps down on free storage
  18. There's https://github.com/mholt/timeliner that will use the API, but realize a bunch of tags (including GPS lat/lon and captured time) will be stripped, and videos will be very low resolution. If you want your metadata tags intact-ish,…
    comment by mceachen · 2019-07-10 · in Google Axes Drive and Photos Integration
  19. …Google Takeout for Google Photos leaves the location metadata intact? Feel free to discuss here: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner/issues/38
    comment by mholt · 2019-06-12 · in Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive
  20. I haven't (I don't use iCloud) - go for it! Would love to see more data sources. See https://github.com/mholt/timeliner/issues/18
    comment by mholt · 2019-06-12 · in Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive
  21. …We are discussing workarounds (other than associating with your Google Location History) here: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner/issues/38 Google Photos API bug report (not that it'll do anything): https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/80…
    comment by mholt · 2019-06-12 · in Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive
  22. …which downloads all your content from Google Photos and other online services to your own computer: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner I run this on a cronjob and it adds all my photos to a timeline in conjunction with my tweets and…
    comment by mholt · 2019-06-12 · in Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive
  23. …etc, I've started a project called Timeliner which downloads your data to your own home computers: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner - I run it on a cron every week.
    comment by mholt · 2019-06-11 · in Hacking My Mother’s Phone to Save Her Memories
  24. This is why I wrote Timeliner: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner - a tool to download all my content from essential cloud services (like Google Photos, etc) -- I don't like to trust the cloud as a master copy of my data.
    comment by mholt · 2019-03-18 · in Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015