Building a Memex in Ember
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Imports from dozens of services ingest into an ETL pipeline and load 10M+ data points into a navigable graph schema, with about five million activities and four million entities linked by relationships. A custom query language and Ember frontend visualize timelines, OCRed images, location traces, command history and reading highlights. Live demo runs inside an Electron wrapper using ember-d3 and Mapbox; the system works and surfaces surprising, concrete traces of past actions.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 7:47Overwhelming amounts of personal data to save!
- 8:09Building a Memex
- 29:08Maps!
- 29:22Building the timeline
- 30:30Ember + Electron
- 31:27Where's this project going?
- 32:40and open source soon!
- 37:16The Memex was Vannevar Bush's weird little side project
- 38:49SKYLIGHT
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