It'd be great to put everyone's birthday as January 1 of the year they were born by default, and scrub things such as:
* City names other than (maybe) the city they currently live in
* Proper names e.g. first partners, spouses, pets (I have no idea how you'd do this though, other than warning users if one of the top 1000 names are detected in their explanatory text or something)
* Names of vehicles
Honestly with how varied security questions can be these days I hesitate to suggest there's even a "safe" list of personal facts which can be publicly displayed. Obviously whatever you might put on LinkedIn or a resume is fair game, but anything beyond that may really open you up to attacks.
If you use a password generator (and thus you never reuse or forget passwords), the easiest thing to do is to just set it to the password (though they may be stored in plaintext), or a different password you keep on the notes in your password manager.
When backward systems force you to answer these questions, I agree it’s better to generate a random string just for this question and provider. Plus it’s a fun time on the odd occasion these extra questions are required in a phone call.
“To complete security, what was your first pet’s name?”
“I’ll never forget dear PMM&7Qhdcim6WdJ:2XaviMw”
Use the password generator to come up with some random words, different for each question.
So I generate random answers but them modify it so that it's somewhat pronunceable.
Also obviously don't use the actual password since they are stored in plaintext
For example, Anne Boleyn - born 1501 _or_ 1507 (the earlier date is more accepted), died 1536; Henry VIII first married in 1509 when Anne was just a small child; her first promise of marriage post 1515 was to avert a civil war in Ireland, and Henry meeting her in 1526 led to the creation of the Church of England, her marriage, and then of course, her own execution. She had a full diary. Or on a lighter note, Mozart, who possibly died at the same age, had a life full of compositions and courts.
Those (and many others) would be interesting in their own right, or as timeline comparisons for people who use the site.
Happy to answer any questions about the app or build any feature requests in near-real time!
Remidners of death are often depressing.
I actually would have interesting things to put on the timeline. Why anyone would do this though just doesn't make sense to me on any level and I know I am in the minority on that.
Maybe interesting to add relationships (at very least marriage?) as visible time periods too.
I love the visual interface of your version.
There’s also a few things I love about an adjacent app (https://www.lifecalendar.io/) and I have a few feature requests for the back burner:
1. I love the idea of seeing my entire life in one structured grid. We lose the playfulness of your version. But it is a harrowing reminder of how much time is left. Would it be possible to implement such a view?
2. Filter/views for events types (vacations, career, etc) to change the perspective on specific topics.
3. Empty headlines permitted. This would allow me to use this as a low resolution weekly journal, that shows the entries only on hover. If we want to warn users of actual empty headline mistakes, then we can substitute with a special character or the like.
In the meantime, I'll try to be super responsive to feedback. Editing/adding collections is high on my list!
Also, as I get older I remember events, but I'm not sure when they happened. I remember being in a certain city on St. Patty's Day, but can't remember what year that might have been.
I got a little obsessed with this idea of journaling my life during the pandemic. I would record videos for my kids to watch in 20+ years. I figure they'll get a kick out of seeing their dad young and talking about current events. I built a site and made my parents record stories about their life - viography.co (try it free functionality is currently being rebuilt and not working. If you want a code dm me).
For the life in weeks, I think the more information that can be saved makes it more valuable. Personally I'm playing around with the idea of turning my site into a weekly video journal. It seems like everyone is putting a ton of content online, it's mostly ephemeral and clickbait-y and as we all get older we'll wish we made more substantial recordings of ourselves and our situations.
Question: The wider cells, do they represent one week and its simply wide just to fit in the text?
Wider cells are just to fit the text. Every cell should be a week, unless there are two events in the same week, which then get split out.
I loved that you made it easy to incorporate world events etc. And the general school calendar.
It would be really nice to incorporate the world events in a list of select which ones made an impact in your life.
You can do this! Just click "customize" on the world events and then you can modify freely
Otherwise you're just making a stupid, rude comment.
I would love to add links to media like pics, videos, notes ect.
