I like this a lot. We need more hard records of personal correspondence. It would be cool to do this as a service.<p>Honestly when I read the title I thought it was going to be about using message history as a basis for generating a narrative account of the events using an LLM.
Awesome to see someone using my library [0] in the wild! Very cool use case.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter">https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter</a>
My Aunt has done a wonderful job at preserving the letters and diary entries between my grandfather + grandmother during WWII. My immediate thought is how our children and grandchildren will not have the same joy!<p>[Here is the blog for those interested](<a href="http://www.honeylightsletters.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.honeylightsletters.com/</a>)
Now to make this work for Whatsapp for the brits... Got excited at the idea of a project and then realised I will have to learn Rust if I was to fork this haha.<p>Anyway, this is definitely a cool idea. Reading my chat history with friends is actually very nostalgic.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but this is slightly creepy.<p>I never understood why people care to keep their private conversation history in the first place. IMO private messages (as opposed to public posts, blogs, etc) are supposed to be temporary ("ephemeral") - one does not record every face-to-face conversation or phone call after all.
This is really cool, and also seems like it could be a great gift to a loved one.<p>I was playing around with Nomic Atlas (<a href="https://docs.nomic.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.nomic.ai/</a>) recently and dumped a bunch of my chat history in there, and it was pretty interesting to visualize and browse my messages as clusters around topics.<p>Which leads me to think that you could bring the searchability of digital to the physical format by generating embeddings for the messages and running topic modeling on them; then, you could create an index of topics at the end of the physical book with page number references to messages about that topic.
Python Script to export them on a Mac <a href="https://pypi.org/project/imessage-reader/" rel="nofollow">https://pypi.org/project/imessage-reader/</a>
In 2000 years, your books may be the only thing left to study how we lived in the 21st century, because all ephemeral information (tweets, chat, SMS, emails, digital photos on people's devices) may have vanished.
I wasn't familiar with BN Press for personal use. I've done some research into KDP and Lulu, but I've decided that ebooks would be my main focus after getting a Kindle and loving it. For a limited/test run, BN Press seems fantastic. $30 for 1300 pages is fantastic.
I love the idea!<p>The thing I like the least though is the table of contents, it's so dry with just the months and years. Despite the skepticism I have about latest AI use and abuse, generating a one-liner from the contents of each month seems like it would be a fitting usage for it.
I love this idea! I think this would be a fun idea, except 1) not sure how it would handle pictures, and 2) there are probably some texts which should not be published!<p>Also - noto emoji is great. It is also nice to use for 3d printing/laser cutting
I like to listen to blogs through Pocket's TTS mode, but this one made me laugh because I couldn't easily skip these sections:<p>> /.../00008120-001854410CEB401E >>> cd 3d
/.../00008120-001854410CEB401E/3d >>> ls
3d0292d3fe90e1e22c247403c0e9105ea0f9ff44 3d8830b71e98aae80b6eaf8bdd5500d79ce74946
3d02fe309afa7de839822d6f1b8433aa90090d17 3d88cdc16ff2b5231e5ea4b52271ee195a6f4b96
3d072c4fca5db4a5678fa10b137435f757e98492 3d8a425d70f4049417e855d273c44d8199de30c9
3d0739c90579fa907246d5c21bd8d8ebaa2d9d6b 3d8a43a1921f504bb4393250f75b24bfc2c5cedb
3d0798b3cc4d2f5ad347ffb8bc5a0f9d8c82cfb9 3d8a7c0460aadabf1b7fc9adea9e6a2a6e7bc73b
3d07a0adc5c5c22dc525ccd3a93fb05a50ef1ac5 3d8b6ad12c7617b3d783790a457b0aa19b193b68
3d0880f091c51ddc145e17c78d8e6f9a3e7e20c8 3d8b82abe05a9d697102d8b665c9d499e07492ea
3d093e92cf03abf3650411e09a647630a1e0c478 3d8ba897240ad32580bf8dfd00db8f181658cdfd
3d095e908ff898be3b3ffd64a75db959a58ac70a 3d8bc227d67ec4944df8e75291102367034d7214
3d09d5dcd5a9bdad67a80cd83201a9e1fb75aada 3d8c722f1d92f7cd6f90c936c14f60f51aad128b
3d0abb83123be82abf43ce20118e72fea06023c5 3d8ca6eeabeb1c01fae05bb20f08dedf734cfd04
3d0b246304c42d2ab1eb1892d629fcdfde689cb7 3d8d0c6b1bf7946c6bef91d60cccb32207b7bc01
3d0bb5f49e6f0e31348ef8feb9a38d4ce71f5ec7 3d8fd2fbcaf3079a683a8e486ecde8875f0a591d
3d0c1283936c45fec533a507b78558b5aa3159fa 3d8ff93bd94b3ea14edc77d1e677cf4ee4306e4e
3d0cb8e28462780bb9af1440e297ecd8224c70ff 3d90ea8bfbf62feda080cd0ccbd12fa5c8673993
3d0ce10de5f69606c52882215b99ebab259dc194 3d932638fe8ed669725b7a143c6a8b02b8959923
3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 3d93c92679aa9d398331e27fdeed64b5094e68d1
...<p>All I could think was, "Oh no, the nam-shub of Enki!"
A French company does this: <a href="https://www.monlivresms.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.monlivresms.com/</a>
(warning: the website is annoying)
Very cool. A while ago I took a trip down memory lane with my partner to take a look at the first messages we sent each other, it was very neat and the memories definitely came back, even though it has been years since we met! A little bit like looking at a photograph and remembering the location and feeling in that moment.
I'm not sure if anyone know but I would like to ask about Signal.<p>I have an Android backup version of Signal message around 2020. Of course I have decrypt key. Since I can't restore it with current version, or the 2020 version of Signal (on Github release), how can I decrypt and extract all the message? Thank you.
I somehow initially thought that the iMessages went through some LLM which retold them in nice Brothers Grim style. But from another perspective it also makes sense to have the originals, although the author is perhaps much better than me in writing messages which may one day be worth reading…
This is fantastic. I've done some semi-similar things, have a tool I wrote for generating nice documents from Facebook Messenger conversations, for archiving important personal conversations. But I didn't take it so far as to generate a <i>book</i> yet! What a great idea!
I did this for my partner on valentines day back in 2015. 20,000+ messages in one HTML page. I never thought of binding a book, though.<p>I suspect this person's project will become very popular as a service. This is a great idea.,
Would the next level be to use an LLM to take the essence of each set of exchanges and present it in a format of a play or movie script? Perhaps novelize it?
Really cool, looks great<p>Also before going to the article, I thought it was about using an LLM to write a book with stories and characters inspired by the message history