===== autoarchaeology =====

def. discovering information about oneself via "[[wp>material culture]]".

As I get older I remember less about myself. Where was I in a given year? Where was I living, who was I hanging out with? What were my interests? What am I not remembering?

Lately I've been doing a sort of archaeological dig on myself, investigating my own records, belongings, and digital traces in order to remember.

==== location ====

Where did I live?

Materials:
  * Bills - these often have addresses
  * Receipts - if digital (online shopping), almost always have addresses. Email in particular is a good source.
  * Photographs - if you took them or are in them, they localize you to a place - metadata or memory can supply the date
  * Google Timeline, Strava, anything that you use or used to use that logged your location

==== friends ====

Who was I with?

Materials:
  * Instant message logs
  * Email
  * Photographs

All of these show you who you were talking to or who you were with.

==== travel ====

Where did I go?

Materials:
  * Flight receipts - check google flights, credit card portals, airline websites, travel portals (expedia, hopper etc)
  * Transaction history - credit card transaction logs always list merchant names; transactions can localize you to a place on a date
  * Photographs - often contain geolocation metadata
  * Google Timeline or other location services - scrub the timeline, see where you went