A public release of TimelineBuilder for building personal digital data timelines

“The vision of creating a timeline of your life experiences has been around for decades. We&#x27;re releasing TimelineBuilder to spur more work towards the vision. It includes a few importers (photos, maps, shopping), episode inference and basic visualization.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AlonHalevy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1673384756883636224" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AlonHalevy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1673384756883636224</a>

What’s inside:<p>- Importers: create LifeLog entries from several data sources (already available: Apple Health, Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Spotify, Venmo, Libby, Google Photos, Google Location, Facebook posts)<p>- Data Visualization: a ReactJS-based visualization frontend of the personal timeline<p>- Question Answering: a LLM-based QA engine over the personal timeline

Nice to see Meta embarking on genuinely helpful social networking projects. There&#x27;s massive social distrust &amp; unrest these days, and building actual pro-social pro-user capabilities is maybe the only way to guard against existential risk.