Photos, journalist, audio recordings, video, blogging, printing photos, making music, posting online etc…
How do you record certain events? Make a journal entry? Just keep it in your memory to yourself?
How do you trust you wont forget the small details that you know today?
How do you trust the security of your documented life? your journal, your printed photos?
You you like analogue or digital documentation? Do you store data on HHDs? (they have a ~30 year lifespan) Mdisk? Photos? Pen and Paper?
Childhood memories? How do you view these archives?
Do you even believe in documenting the events of your life? Is it important to you? The quicker you write down an event, the more emotion you can convey.
What do you do and don’t do?
I have a personal MediaWiki installation on my computer (same software as Wikipedia). Been running it since 2022. Most recent offsite backup is from the start of December. I also have a very Wikipedia-like writing style as a result, too.
Any of my descendants, if they will ever exist, will probably have a great time going through great-grandpa’s writings 🙂
screenshot of Special:Statistics. WARNING: LIGHT MODE
The pages figure doesn’t sound as impressive when you realize a lot of them are templates imported from Wikipedia lol
Hell, this month I made it into a Kiwix Zim file that I can read when away, but of course that doesn’t support writing to it, so I sometimes write in a physical logbook when I’m away from my computer