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- core descriptions
- digital archive
- album + collaging + memory + collaboration + evergreen
- digital chain messages
- Snail-mail newsletter. Interactive, if possible — i.e. create chain mail and include a stamp and envelope. I’ve been wanting to do something like this, and bought a domain for the project so you know that, uh, I’ll probably never do it. But regardless, you could try it too! Think this could be 1. a fun way to share with friends during the pandemic, 2. a fun way to think about interaction mechanics in a physical surface. tobuild ^YICapE9wg
- aspect of tagging people in the things you curate? ^BEJvT08b5
- but deliberate delay built-in?
- digital public space
- lower-pressure contexts to save and curate and share
- information firehose haven
- digital mental context memories
- tools for meaning in a low pressure context
- environment for cultivating meaning and encouraging reflection?
- digital archive
- core descriptions
- #waypoints/examples]]
- interesting resource (podcast, book, article) that isn’t immediately relevant enough to text to friend or group
- photo that’s a memory for people that you aren’t super close to
- a meme: matryoshka backpacks
- an idea or quotation that’s top of mind: “physical proximity…”
- song: rex sharing spotify music on close friends
- doodle for current yearnings: post-covid hang pic
- can people create their own content types that has a format that people follow?
- i.e. mood board, water log… this is like futureland but done in the low pressure context
- waypoints problems
- internet experience is solitary
- internet browsing experience is solitary. We are wrapped in a world of information and trapped within ourselves. You have specific outlets for connection but it’s hard to put in the effort to do that, especially when you spiral. ^6qkKj-tdl
- How can we create the digital public square?
- Hat do public gathering places look like in the internet browsing experience?
- Can logging on feel like you’re plugging yourself into a world with others rather than a solitary expoloration?
- internet browsing experience is solitary. We are wrapped in a world of information and trapped within ourselves. You have specific outlets for connection but it’s hard to put in the effort to do that, especially when you spiral. ^6qkKj-tdl
- current tools bring us together in a formal context
- We have a bunch of tools focused on bringing us together to collaborate but its in a formal context (share this document for this purpose, this workspace for this other purpose) and a bunch of platforms for connecting with people that ultimately either have misaligned incentives (promoting things that raise status) or require the formation of a group upfront with a specific purpose in mind in order to discuss.
- Group chats form around a specific purpose / context
- Everything is too formal, high pressure
- In this world, people who are very outgoing and invested reap all the benefits. It’s why people turn to social lubricants like alcohol, drugs, etc. to loosen their inhibitions. What if we could promote that artificially by changing the environment rather than having to rely on artificial supplements?
- We have a bunch of tools focused on bringing us together to collaborate but its in a formal context (share this document for this purpose, this workspace for this other purpose) and a bunch of platforms for connecting with people that ultimately either have misaligned incentives (promoting things that raise status) or require the formation of a group upfront with a specific purpose in mind in order to discuss.
- internet experience is solitary
- comparables and how different
- ampie
- futureland
- are.na
- pinterest, goodreads,
- Twitter: it’s meant to be like this where anyone can share but still under frame of gaining status so people feel barrier to posting, need to make it easy by default to post
- this is gathered around specific topics, is that healthy?
- facebook, instagram
- discord, slack
- clubhouse
- top questions
- How to add stuff to time capsules without needing to open something else ()integrate into existing behavior) ^6dss9sypy
- Hardest thing is people need to be on this ^2Ut43Al17
- feedback
- from helena ^V0keGE80M
- hijacking feed is interesting
- reminds me of on this day feature
- one interesting angle of this from others is that people critique the feature because facebook decides that for you, this one is chosen by you
- like that it’s a communal thing
- something between me and mom does she approve that
- digital archive, work together on what defines your relationship
- reminds me of extension that replaces word with something else, replace ad panel with something
- from carlo reminds me of visual messaging app, instead of texting one another you have an infinite canvas that grows as you add more things to it, group canvas or 1:1 chat
- like creating album or collage together (muze)
- where is this communal space? when else would i go to that space, why else would i be helpful
- facebook friendship videos: those are kinda lame but artificially create moment for two people to think about each other which is nice
- or is it like this is “helena’s museum” and when you’re there you can see these people in the museum (individual vs. collaborative)
- on archive, friend can leave some moment that you want to remember together (put into time capsule), shown to other person on these other networks
- that way you get new stuff from your friends
- instead of putting something in a feed or hacking to make it show up in facebook, maybe you could serve it as an ad
- hijack all ad spots
- helpful interrupt as you’re browsing web
- healthy ad market, bid on ads for your friends ^8f412d
- what is the currency?
- in collaborative case, you trust your friends to curate for you
- aspect of tagging people in the things you curate? ^BEJvT08b5
- direction question: disrupting feed (ad market) vs. own space (digital archive), individual vs. collaborative
- why would someone put this thing in this other tool vs. use facebook or some other tool
- async vs. synchronous communication also comes up, people don’t want to go to facebook to do this
- pocket but actually social and succesful in social sphere? ^HKrfoewHj
- from lane: really like the in-context surfacing to change behavior
- pattern interrupt to remind you of something you already know. just need to be reminded of
- people to ask
- jason yuan
- tyler angert
- jamie wong
- Aaron Lewis
- Greg isenberg
- may-li
- Josh Miller
- rachel
- harrison lin
- from helena ^V0keGE80M
- essence:
- intimacy is in our experiences and our memories. A lot of these are encoded in the digital world but we never see them because we are always suffused with the present.
- capture intimacy and allow for the feeling of everyone loving together by designing a shared space together
- feeling of greater sense of solidarity and ownership the more that you work with someone on something creative. Can you recreate that feeling?
- concept of play and piddling around. How to encourage silly but meaningful expressions in the surfacing of the content, as to express personality (expression of personality in software is magical)
- “capsule” is a random assortment of these things that were surfaced from the remember algo?
- digital collaborative archive ^VJMekVBKq
- Async collaboration, surfacing in context
- Universal capture and plant ^blONKef_a
- comparables: universal capture + export (called mem it): basically lets you paste out content of notes into any app or capture from any app ^yi15CMsbs
- “Plant” things on certain sites
- Bury the time capsule, it’s like geocaching but on the internet
- Digital geocaching ^fsgUG1PfI
- Like ad market but you put pleasant surprises
- main room and archive?
- pitch:
- features
- helpful interrupt to fight against infinite scroll, infinite feed experience of internet
- you can turn off to focus on the dive into rabbit hole experience
- resurface what is important to you, not what an app thinks is important for you in moments
- spaced repetition for memories ^2GLSz9wDm
- healthy ad market, bid on ads for your friends ^Ayu_cwU8C?
- save + curate content, associate with person
- aspect of tagging people in the things you curate? ^BEJvT08b5
- Universal capture and plant ^blONKef_a
- collaborate on digital archive together that captures your relationship
- digital collaborative archive ^VJMekVBKq
- photos that snapshot an amazing experience, pieces of “garbage” that have so much sentimental value, songs that put you in another mindset: all of these are things in our world that give us immense sentimental value—they have the power to completely change our day, if we’re reminded of them. Why is it that we so infrequently resurface these pieces of our history that have so much emotional resonance? The problem is that we don’t encounter them in our day-to-day; instead, we face an endless barrage of beyond perfect ways of living, superficial connections, status-signaling material objects, and sweeping statements on the right way to do things. These kinds of things fill our feeds like weeds, naturally overgrowing the space provided. We have to work hard to cultivate, garden, and curate these feeds to reflect what we want to see, but it’s difficult when the default is something that we don’t want to see. What if we could change the default? What if we could get reminded of these pieces of garbage and be reminded of the momentous moments in life, like digging up a time capsule, full of goodies and happy surprises.
- helpful interrupt to fight against infinite scroll, infinite feed experience of internet
- features
- sketches
- active thinking
- maybe make this into kindness journal and focus on capturing context immediately, but then really not much diff from existing things.. interesting part comes when you can cultivate this space together
- conversation with avery on waypoints ^XsKDS2cp6
- namestorming
- time capsules
- kind capsules
- memory garden
- snail capsules
- Brainstorming new name for formerly waypoints, doesn’t really capture the initial inspiration which is that going online frequently makes us feel bad or really good, have to sacrifice the risk of being really bad in order to get the really good. What can you do up front to get the really good? A safe space for that without needing you to develop a tough skin ^lGBMMpnZP
- trail, waypoint ^2PQOWLFjE
- wayfind, teleport, way.app, wayfind.app ^LMlWczMdh
- geocaching. Digicache, Intercache, Cache ^w0N7uHaR6
- Make it feel light: snack? Muze? Wander? Campfire? Gather? ^BvVGYuAw0
- old
- feed tuner
- inspiration for this idea
- communication has a lot of different purposes. We stuff them all into one medium i.e. async vs. synchronous communication
- reaching out with one memory is nice, but what if you could see all the memories or fuzzy thoughts?
- tweets on being notified every time someone thought of you from Nick Cammarata ^5y-d-D5Yn
- tweets on kindness folder for yourself holding all the kudos from people
- https://twitter.com/francois_bach/status/1349804397824393217?s=21
- basically this but with yourself (your own time capsule)
- the vibe: sending letter off in bottle waypoints/vibe]] ^goTY2r0-T from tweets thread with Aaron Lewis
- Vibe is thing michelle huang shared about sending ”.” to each other when thinking about them. How do you scale that or provide that to everyone? ^f7aRwaMlW
- communication has a lot of different purposes. We stuff them all into one medium i.e. async vs. synchronous communication
- prototype flow
- can easily prototype the in-context stuff by using shortcut from apple accessible from share, auto add to X person’s thing
- To figure out❗️❗️
- this wont be frequent use… how do people remember to use it? i guess hope would be that people bookmark this?
- How is this diff from using a folder or using something like notion or…? ^tgY0sXewx
- Basically a list of things… but with someone 🤔🤔 ^11f1ea
- Could technically share a doc w every person but maybe that’s why it’s crazy to do that..?
- anything that makes this easier. the biggest problem is having the notion to do it and keeping up with it
- most important part is actually going to be in context -- not having to go to a new place to put it
- how can you send it from anywhere? what is most accessible? ^IMZsAU1AP
- screenshots or copy + paste or mobile share…
- look at hijack your feed for inspiration
- App for capturing sentimental letters to friends and store time capsule for friends ^BPD5Jw1Yl
- waypoints/resources]]
- see conversation with avery
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what kind of mechanics would you want out of something like this? I’m imagining ability to address letters to friends, send letters at some specified later date, they can come in see all the letters and set a timed reminder to look back at them maybe this extends into actually hijacking your Facebook feed to remind you about these love letters
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- what are comparables here?
- see conversation with avery
- principle people have lots of gratitude for their different friends and people who have been there for them in life (even if not something continual on a relationship like a friend). There should be a way to encourage the sharing of these sentiments instead of keeping them holed up. What if we could be a little more sentimental and better at sharing our appreciation for others? at the same time , current social media is toxic and leads to addiction instead of connections (connection is opposite of addiction) and there is an opportunity to remind people of the connections they have in context of this addiction in things like doom scrolling. ^j4SQLYF9F
- social media doesn’t give us the connection we’re looking for
- spaced repetition for relationships and friendships
- Communal garden for async / long-living things the garden
- Observation on how different synchronous and async communication async vs. synchronous communication
- Some sense that this can be extended to everyone cultivating their thoughts in a graph and linking certain thoughts to certain people. Does that lose the intimacy and make it too abstract though?
- API for your thoughts, for your feelings… Plaid but for writing and reading ^nxr9r8-59
- one centralized place for all your input and output. if you can connect into that output you can do so many things… right now have to go to disparate places to connect with your thoughts or other user-generated content
- tobuild what if all your user-generated content was accessible via API? what would that look like
- one centralized place for all your input and output. if you can connect into that output you can do so many things… right now have to go to disparate places to connect with your thoughts or other user-generated content
- API for your thoughts, for your feelings… Plaid but for writing and reading ^nxr9r8-59
- what is the hero scenario and what do they do know?
- hero scenario: picture with memory + caption to add to time capsule for friend.
- currently, idk what i would do, i’d probably have the thought and then never take action on it or maybe if im really close to them ill express it in some text or just text them since im thinking about them.
- people convey it via gifts, offers to hang out, just sending photos of memories waypoints/examples]]
- i really like the paradigm of sending photos of memories, transports you to a different context and really helps you viscerally remember what it was like then and that nostalgia always feels great
- am i the only one this senti to want to use something like this?
- what value is this giving to people?
- convenience and memory (in-context quickly capture and surface) ^lmC4mSjxz
- hijack your feed surfacing, quick capture via screenshots, via share, via copy + paste
- storage + collaboration + filtering out signal from noise + customization
- central place connected to person instead of an idea — focused on the meat of the relationship and having a communal gardening space for designing your evolving relationship, like a partner document that evolves with you except its a canvas and represents your communal digital archive
- convenience and memory (in-context quickly capture and surface) ^lmC4mSjxz
- engineering problems
- unique link
- database for people, content
- core questions
- What is the digital equivalent to objects in time capsules?
- those objects each imbue a lot of meaning
- can everything be a screenshot of some sort? or at least one thing framed? try imposing some constraints at first
- text is a special form of “screenshot”
- screenshot or a link?
- link can be music, video, etc.
- those objects each imbue a lot of meaning
- What kind of mechanics would you want out of something like this? I’m imagining ability to address letters to friends, send letters at some specified later date, they can come in see all the letters and set a timed reminder to look back at them maybe this extends into actually hijacking your Facebook feed to remind you about these love letter
- how do you capture content?
- convenience and memory (in-context quickly capture and surface) ^lmC4mSjxz
- how can you send it from anywhere? what is most accessible? ^IMZsAU1AP
- in-context: what do you capture?
- do some sketches of these options
- actual content: screenshot or text
- location?
- physical location
- digital location (source)
- can you capture the source? so that you can later try to retrace the trail? maybe this is too hard
- see Screenotate
- can you capture the source? so that you can later try to retrace the trail? maybe this is too hard
- time metadata
- short feeling or description or emotion?
- should it be an ongoing conversation or more of an archive? where does old stuff go?
- how does content progress / display ^x4pdgt8nE
- should it be an ongoing conversation or more of an archive? where does old stuff go?
- what does it look and feel like?
- how does content progress / display ^x4pdgt8nE
- is there a concept of an archive within the archive? as in the main room is the constantly evolving space and you can always go back in time and see how it was before?
- option 1: no history, always present and destructive (can remove/replace)
- evolving museum showroom but that encourages to throw away the old…
option 2: always present but additive, so preserves history of commentary or emotions?- how do you handle cycle of old stuff tho? seems to have problems
- option 3: always present but encourages active curation and gardening — has a special archive place to put old things
- evolving museum showroom with storerooms
- option 4: always present but encourages active curation and gardening and automatically phases things out into the background chronologically
- more of a timeline history is preserved, but prioritizes chronologically..
- option 5: always additive and always prioritizes the present
- could also prioritize by “rating” mm doesn’t seem super scalable
- could measure “emotional value” by how many times it is referred back to?
- factor into spaced repetition
- how does content progress / display ^x4pdgt8nE
- how do you create one?
- what is the view like?
- also like above can be spatial or
- what kinds of content can you add?
- long-form text
- media like picture, video, emoji(?),
- maybe special design for text that represent diff senses (taste, smell, touch)
- drawings (probably in future just overload picture for now)
- what is the view like?
- how to reach people? need something native to contact them via
- contact mtehods
- phone number
- facebook profile
- ???
- if nothing available, search in system and ask if they are the same people? if not, keep reference to this person and see if they pop up
- if you have a link then it doesnt matter person can figure out best way themselves, no need to formalize this in the app
- unique link, shared between each connection. maybe for now no auth so easy to view without logging in, future would want some kind of security / assurances
- contact mtehods
- have to send to one person or can send to group of people? dynamics are different so maybe allow groups but then have to design a whole new user journey for how people can interact with group ones since multiplayer and not just 1:1
- decision simplify, keep to just 1:1 for now, if expand into group can look at letterloop which is in the same vein but more about constant production of content whereas this is evergreen and doesn’t ever have to be augmented by more content
- process of notifying people not on the app of something that someone made for you.
- what is the appropriate time frame for this? should you be able to specify? maybe like 1 week -> 1 month -> 3 months
- what do you send to people?
- presumably link to the thing, is the thing an integrated thing for both of you (both submissions) or is it just what they sent to you or what you sent to them?
- what if it was a collaborative space for you to update and change as you both feel?
- append-only data model (can delete or edit past ones)
- what if it was a collaborative space for you to update and change as you both feel?
- presumably link to the thing, is the thing an integrated thing for both of you (both submissions) or is it just what they sent to you or what you sent to them?
- after you receive one, how do you accept it and view it?
- how is your experience actually interacting with it?
- what does the view actually look like?
- list view in chronological order of added or the source time?
- maybe both, shows source separately and you can annotate the source which is tagged by the day you annotated
- sort chronologically either by time added or by date of the memory (could be same or diff)
- some spatial concept where you can drag+drop stuff around
- list view in chronological order of added or the source time?
- trust & safety
- make sure people who are receiving consent to receiving things from the person first (will probably be someone they recognize, let’s just assume that at this point)
- later can tackle problem of getting people to be more spontaneous and meet other people
- can always block someone from sending you more stuff in case relationship goes sour, archive the time capsule
- make sure people who are receiving consent to receiving things from the person first (will probably be someone they recognize, let’s just assume that at this point)
- maybe quota you have on digging into time capsules where you have to send some stuff to keep going? incentive structure, maybe too in-app purchases like
- What is the digital equivalent to objects in time capsules?
- future work
- eventually surface this in context of bad things like doomscrolling facebook or chatting friend in order to populate when you feel the emotion
- inject people’s time capsules for you in random places as you browse in order to feel magical
- eventually surface this in context of bad things like doomscrolling facebook or chatting friend in order to populate when you feel the emotion
- waypoints/resources]]
