Reporter for iPhone tracks your whole life, one quiz at a time | The Verge

A $3.99 app for self-reporting

"Felton led design on Timeline, the company’s life-spanning profile pages, and Open Graph. He wanted to let anybody share their "life events" like graduating from college, but also the minutiae of daily life, like the song you’re listening to on Spotify right this second. Timeline launched to much fanfare, and Felton was named one of Fast Company’s 50 most influential designers in America. But Facebook soon learned that it made a fatal assumption: people don’t always want to document their lives as a historian might — publicly, at least. Meanwhile, Felton checked his personal data charts and noticed that he had been spending more time "in meetings" and "in email" than "designing" — an activity that had previously dominated his life. He left Facebook and began working on a pure utility that let you document your life privately and locally (unless you want to sync with Dropbox)."

Reporter for iPhone tracks your whole life, one quiz at a time | The Verge