Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

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A place for everything... Photos, videos, text messages, locations, chats, social media, and more. Timelinize unifies it all. By adding all your data, Timelinize documents your family's life with more detail and privacy, and gives you a more complete view of your story, than standard photo library and journaling apps. ...and everything at home. Most apps store your data "in the cloud" and out of your control. What if you lost access to your Google/Apple/Facebook accounts, or your phone? By bringing that data home to your own computer, Timelinize preserves a richer story than any one app or service can do alone. Timelinize isn't a replacement for the apps and services you already use, so you don't need to disrupt your way of life. Instead, it "sits behind" what you already use to become the permanent private archive of your working copy from: Explore more With several projections for your data, it's easy to keep moments alive that would otherwise be forgotten, rotting on a hard drive in your closet... or in a bigcorp's cloud. The images below show a real timeline with personal data, so the application was configured to obfuscate images, names, some locations, and other personal information. Your own timeline will appear normally. Timeline The timeline view semantically groups all your data into a single linear layout. Easily see what occurred on a specific day in the order it happened. A timeline showing: a multimedia message sent, GPS tracks on a map, a text message received, Twitter messages exchanged, and photos/videos taken. Map Visualize your data on a huge, beautiful map of the world that plots points when and where they happened, even for data that doesn't have coordinates (like text messages and emails). The world map renders your path with a colored line indicating the passage of time. Because Timelinize is entity-aware, it can even map data points without coordinates, like this text message received while I was at the beach. Conversations Follow connections...

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