RubyConf 2018 - Building a Memex (with Ruby!) by Andrew Louis

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Andrew Louis shows how he built a personal Memex in Ruby, pulling his own data from many apps and services into one archive. The talk draws on Vannevar Bush's idea of a Memex as a way to explore your own digital history.

HN people list it among the few resources for gathering and exploring personal data, in the spirit of a Memex.

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@vortex_ape2025 · in “Building a Memex [video]”
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@yonz2023 · in “Memex like products/communities for gathering personal data?”
Recently ran into Memex a personal data repository built by Andrew (Brew conf 2018)and realized maybe I'm not alone in wanting to gather structure and explore my personal data from all apps and activities. Please share if you have hacks, tools, communities or products that can help archive the above. Tweet thread yielded the following: - Brew conf 2018 Memex presentation: ▶ this video - Chronicle ETL : a cli for ETL'ing from different data siloes link - Mainframe link - Dogsheep is a collection of tools for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette. link
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@eitland2020 · in “RubyConf 2018 – Building a Memex (With Ruby) by Andrew Louis”
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