Photos, journalist, audio recordings, video, blogging, printing photos, making music, posting online etc…
How do you record certain events? Make a journal entry? Just keep it in your memory to yourself?
How do you trust you wont forget the small details that you know today?
How do you trust the security of your documented life? your journal, your printed photos?
You you like analogue or digital documentation? Do you store data on HHDs? (they have a ~30 year lifespan) Mdisk? Photos? Pen and Paper?
Childhood memories? How do you view these archives?
Do you even believe in documenting the events of your life? Is it important to you? The quicker you write down an event, the more emotion you can convey.
What do you do and don’t do?
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I don’t. It’s very rare I want to remember something forever.
Hell I’m desperately trying to forget as much of my life as possible.
I feel that deep in my soul
It is presumptuous to assume that my life is important enough to need documentation.
All the AI companies would beg to differ
Won’t somebody think of the tech moguls?
I basically don’t. I take some photos on occasion but I don’t have any routine. Although this post has made me think about it.
I use a digital journal (Logseq) backed by write-only git repositories, syncthing and the 3-2-1 backup rule. This contains info about my days, struggles, friends and family and regular introspection.
Photos and videos usually get carried over from one phone to the other, synced with my home server, also 3-2-1 backup rule, and every 3y I’ll archive stuff to free up space.
Interesting knowledge usually gets shared by me via https://wiki.tilde.fun/. I often link it to friends and colleagues when they ask me to explain stuff. Sometimes I also copy articles I write for corporate knowledge bases after work into my wiki in a more sophisticated form. I tend to not cater to 5-year-olds in my personal wiki, but it’s inevitable in a corpo setting where you have people with no experience at all.
How do you do it?
I mostly don’t. Maybe this isn’t the kind of answer you were interested in. I think memorable experiences are transient and are more beautiful the more fleeting they are. The more I try to immortalize some moment, the less I feel I’m able to enjoy it in the moment. There are some exceptions. I keep recipes in Google keep. Most of them I just know how to make but I might need my memory jogged for a measurement or temp setting. I also have a small notebook I use as a gym journal. “Journalling” seems like a stretch for the chicken-scratch numbers, though. It’s mostly so I know how much weight to use next time I go.
I write a journal and recently i have been organizing my photo archive with embedded captions, tags, gps, etc…
I dont think anyone will ever care to read this stuff. Maybe some llm in the future will be able to digest all of this so a curious descendant might be able to ask questions to it like what did Terminal do for work or some such thing.
Obsidian daily notes . Typicly only events of significance recorded , otherwise tꝏ much effort documenting every single thing (did|happened) each day
Each daily note entry’s timestamped using QuickAdd plugin
I take pictures of the architecture around me.
The mundane stuff that no one bothers to document and won’t make it into historical architecture books.
I have over a hundred gigabytes of liminal space photos I’m debating whether I should share on Lemmy or not.
I think you’re cool. I’ve been wanting to do a similar project, but I don’t have a camera ready yet, and life is happening quite a bit these days. I’ve got a few liminal space photos in my phone’s camera reel that I think are neat at least. I’d like to see what you’ve got if you ever decide to share. Would be cool to see.
