A public release of TimelineBuilder for building personal digital data timelines (opens in new tab)

“The vision of creating a timeline of your life experiences has been around for decades. We're releasing TimelineBuilder to spur more work towards the vision. It includes a few importers (photos, maps, shopping), episode inference and basic visualization.”

https://twitter.com/AlonHalevy/status/1673384756883636224

What’s inside:

- Importers: create LifeLog entries from several data sources (already available: Apple Health, Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Spotify, Venmo, Libby, Google Photos, Google Location, Facebook posts)

- Data Visualization: a ReactJS-based visualization frontend of the personal timeline

- Question Answering: a LLM-based QA engine over the personal timeline

Nice to see Meta embarking on genuinely helpful social networking projects. There's massive social distrust & unrest these days, and building actual pro-social pro-user capabilities is maybe the only way to guard against existential risk.