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| 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? | 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 to remember. | + | Lately I've been doing a sort of archaeological dig on myself, investigating my own records, belongings, and digital traces |
| ==== location ==== | ==== location ==== | ||
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| * Receipts - if digital (online shopping), almost always have addresses. Email in particular is a good source. | * 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 | * 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 ==== | ==== friends ==== | ||
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| * Flight receipts - check google flights, credit card portals, airline websites, travel portals (expedia, hopper etc) | * 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 | * 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 | ||
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