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Adam B. · 12-03-2007, 12:24 PM

Here's a little background on me. I'm 23 years old. I've always been a little absent minded. I can't remember most people's birthdays, phone numbers, etc. I've gotten around this problem by using computers to store all the important information. But lately, I've been starting to worry about forgetting memories from my past. I'm not so concerned about my day-to-day working, as that all seems to blend together, but things like family vacations, childhood friends, gradeschool, etc. It always seems like I'm struggling to remember things that happened in the past. Even as far back as 5-7 years ago. I'm worried that I'm going to turn 40, and not remember the important things.

So I've decided to try to record all of my memories into electronic format to help me remember and reference as I age. This is probably going to get very large, and contain a lot of information that I'd like to keep organzied. This isn't going to be like a daily journal, but a place to hold all of the things worth remembering.

It has to have at least the following:

Open access and portability. I plan on keeping this for a while. I can't be locked into a specific format that will be obsolete in a few years.
Availability. If I'm walking down the street, I want to be able to jot down something that popped into my head quickly.
Security. This is probably going to contain a lot of personal information. Names of people, embarassments, etc. I don't want the whole world to know about every aspect of my life.

So there I am. My fist though was a simple document, but that will get messy very quickly. Besides, this isn't going to be entered like a story, but a collection of facts. I'm leaning tward a wiki. It should be easy to organize and should be pretty portable. I want it to be online, but not available to everyone. I don't know if mediawiki has that abilitiy. I'd also have to find a host I trust, and keep it paid up and make sure I do backups. I want redundancy so I don't loose all of this if my HD crashes.

Does anyone have any other ideas, comments or suggestions?

12-03-2007, 12:24 PM	#1
Adam B. Addicted to Porting Posts: 1,697 Karma: 7194 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Indianapolis, IN Device: iRex iLiad, Nokia 770, Samsung i760	My personal memory project Here's a little background on me. I'm 23 years old. I've always been a little absent minded. I can't remember most people's birthdays, phone numbers, etc. I've gotten around this problem by using computers to store all the important information. But lately, I've been starting to worry about forgetting memories from my past. I'm not so concerned about my day-to-day working, as that all seems to blend together, but things like family vacations, childhood friends, gradeschool, etc. It always seems like I'm struggling to remember things that happened in the past. Even as far back as 5-7 years ago. I'm worried that I'm going to turn 40, and not remember the important things. So I've decided to try to record all of my memories into electronic format to help me remember and reference as I age. This is probably going to get very large, and contain a lot of information that I'd like to keep organzied. This isn't going to be like a daily journal, but a place to hold all of the things worth remembering. It has to have at least the following: Open access and portability. I plan on keeping this for a while. I can't be locked into a specific format that will be obsolete in a few years. Availability. If I'm walking down the street, I want to be able to jot down something that popped into my head quickly. Security. This is probably going to contain a lot of personal information. Names of people, embarassments, etc. I don't want the whole world to know about every aspect of my life. So there I am. My fist though was a simple document, but that will get messy very quickly. Besides, this isn't going to be entered like a story, but a collection of facts. I'm leaning tward a wiki. It should be easy to organize and should be pretty portable. I want it to be online, but not available to everyone. I don't know if mediawiki has that abilitiy. I'd also have to find a host I trust, and keep it paid up and make sure I do backups. I want redundancy so I don't loose all of this if my HD crashes. Does anyone have any other ideas, comments or suggestions?