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Journal timothy's Journal: Idea: If I wrote it online, I want it in my personal archive 3

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Ideally, I want a searchable index of everything I ever write online, and with at least one view of that being time-stamped chunks of plain text I can scroll through.

To that end, "Timestamp and mail logs?" would be a good standard option on all IM / chat programs. (Some programs -- Pidgin, say -- do a good job of this. Gmail does a good thing by treating gchat conversations as like gmail messages, making them searchable.) Facebook and many others do not, or do it badly. (iChat can keep logs, but they're in a hard-to-search format. I wonder how many iChat users ever make use of those logs.)

 

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  • It would be kind of interesting to use a proxy for your online services. This proxy would then log all of your stuff to disk, searchable and with an index.

  • Facebook and many others do at least offer you various RSS feeds. You could presumably subscribe to your own RSS feed and archive off most of it?

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      by timothy ( 36799 ) * Works for Slashdot

      Nick: That's an interesting idea; hadn't thought of RSS feeds for that-- Thanks. Will need to look into the possibility, to see how much they actually include (replies to replies, etc?).

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