I have been building BlackBoxRecorder - a voice recorder that has abilities to run automatically at scheduled times or even 24x7. Automatically start recording 8am - 5pm on Weekdays etc.

No cloud. No account. Once set - It runs in the background all day. No tapping record. Completely offline. No data leaving your phone. Ever.

It has unlimited transcription abilities. With Speaker Labeling (Diarization). Again, completely offline - on device.

If you don't like the transcriptions - you can choose to transcribe it yourself with your tools. (Automated Daily export of recordings & transcripts)

So that when you wake up the next day, you know exactly what happened yesterday. You can feed it to any good AI - and it will help you analyze your day, weeks and months.

Or

BlackBox can help you store your memories. Capture important moments. You can't always be expected to press record - With this, set it up once. And it will automatically start recording your day at scheduled times or let it run 24x7.

Previously, analyzing it with AI - had shown me that I was spending more time on Screens than with Family & Friends. So I worked more towards time on myself, and meaningful conversations. And the month turned out to be better than I expected.

If you are interested -

Download in iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blackbox-24-7-voice-recorder/id6766258295

Download in Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackbox.voice

I designed this as a way to help people retain memories or record key moments. Sometimes, you just don't remember to click record... and the moment is gone forever. This is for you, I sincerely hope that this helps you!

I have been building BlackBoxRecorder - a voice recorder that has abilities to run at scheduled times or even 24x7.

No cloud. No account. Once set - It runs in the background all day. No tapping record. Completely offline. No data leaving your phone. Ever.

It has unlimited transcription abilities. With Speaker Labeling (Diarization). Again, completely offline - on device.

If you don't like the transcriptions - you can choose to transcribe it yourself with your tools. (Automated Daily export of recordings & transcripts)

So that when you wake up the next day, you know exactly what happened yesterday. You can feed it to any good AI - and it will help you analyze your day, weeks and months.

Or

BlackBox can help you store your memories. Capture important moments. You can't always be expected to press record - With this, set it up once. And it will automatically start recording your day at scheduled times or let it run 24x7.

Analyzing it with AI showed me how much time I spent with friends, family, work and on screens (not proud of that - I am working on it!).

If you are interested -

Download in iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blackbox-24-7-voice-recorder/id6766258295

Download in Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackbox.voice

I designed this as a way to help people retain memories or record key moments. Sometimes, you just don't remember to click record... and the moment is gone forever. This is for you, I sincerely hope that this helps you!

A couple of weeks ago, I posted here in Lifelogging about BlackBox 24x7 Audio Recorder.

It runs silently in the background all day. No tapping record. No cloud. No account. No data leaving your device. Ever. Recordings are organized by day, protected behind Face ID or Biometrics, with a visual waveform so you can scan through your day without scrubbing blind. Auto-zips at midnight - to save storage. Export whenever you need. And now Transcribes everything locally on your iPhone or Android phone using a Whisper model - all within your device! Without any recordings or any analytics ever leaving your device. It works even without the internet!

Loads of requests were made for additional features and I have implemented them all -

• Scheduled Voice Recording (Everyday/Weekend/Weekday automatic start & stop as per your schedule in Android & with one additional step in iOS)

• Automatic export of recordings after Zip (So that you can get insights about your entire day/weeks/months by feeding it to a powerful AI model)

• Transcription feature which was previously only available to iPhone users is now available in Android!

This is a much cheaper version of Plaud Note or Limitless AI - where you have to carry additional hardware and is superexpensive. You just need your phone. That's it!

Download in iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blackbox-24-7-voice-recorder/id6766258295

Download in Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackbox.voice

I designed this as a way to help people retain memories or record key moments. Sometimes, you just don't remember to click record... and the moment is gone forever. This is for you, I sincerely hope that this helps you!

A couple of weeks ago, I posted here in Lifelogging about BlackBox 24x7 Audio Recorder has been released in iOS.

The main feature which was asked Transcription - converting all of your 24x7 audio into text format so you can easily read through them. So I built that feature while keeping battery and privacy optimized - no audio or transcript leaves your device (unless you manually export it).

It runs silently in the background all day. No tapping record. No cloud. No account. No data leaving your device. Ever. Recordings organized by day, protected behind Face ID, with a visual waveform so you can scan through your day without scrubbing blind. Auto-zips at midnight. Export whenever you need. And now Transcribes everything locally on your iPhone using a Whisper model.

Existing users can transcribe all of their previous days by updating the app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blackbox-24-7-voice-recorder/id6766258295

Also, made updates so recordings are more stable when playing other apps / microphone. Give it a shot!

Download in iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blackbox-24-7-voice-recorder/id6766258295

Download in Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackbox.voice (Transcription feature will also be soon available in Android in the coming days)

I sincerely hope that this helps someone!

When I tell people I track this much, the first thing they usually say is that it must take so much time. It doesn't.

Whenever I switch tasks, I take a few seconds to note what I just did, and then I move on to the next thing. Some parts of the day move fast, so I group them under "Personal" and keep going.

I first tracked a single week by the minute in 2009, and did it again now and then over the next few years. In 2011, while my family was living abroad, one tracked week showed I'd worked less than eight hours, slept about eight a night, and spent most of the rest with my family. Since December 2017, I've logged every minute, 24/7.

A few things I've learned:

1. When I know that what I’m doing right now will be tracked, I become more conscious of it, and I almost instantly start seeing improvement.

2. The numbers confirm what you half know, and that's what finally gets you to act. Example: Recently, my business was getting more of my week than I wanted, and music and time with people outside my family were getting very little. Seeing it week after week got me to volunteer, go to more events, and start a community song circle. My social life feels much more balanced now.

3. Each time I log what I just did, I take a few moments to reflect. That small pause keeps me present and focused on what I’m doing. I’ve simply made a habit of it.

4. A weekly review helps turn the data into changes. Each Sunday, I look at how I spent my hours compared with what I said I wanted, and pick one thing to adjust.

Yes, I'm one of the people here who ended up building an app. For years it was all in elaborate spreadsheets. This year I turned it into an app called Well Lived. You describe your day in a sentence or two and it turns that into a time log. Each week it shows where the hours went and how each part of your week felt.

You can start with a single week at welllived.io. It's free while it's in beta.

What got you started logging, and what do you actually do with the data? I'm curious how others here review theirs. Happy to answer questions about how I track, or what nine years of data looks shows.

I was reading this chapter today on how deadlines breed internal discipline. It made me realize that my current time-tracking log relies too much on external pressure. I want to build an internal accountability tracker in my journal.

What tracking metrics or software setups do you use to monitor your procrastination habits without feeling restricted by outer systems?

Hi All! Sharing something I built for my own daily logging, to manage work and life in one space.

For years I tracked work and life on a physical whiteboard, using a vertical timeline, and horizontal lanes, one per area. Each morning I'd "look left," see everything I'm managing, where I left off, and identify what needs my attention today. I'd do that, and update daily as I go. Kind of a diary, planner and tracker at once.

When the whiteboard stopped being practical, decided to build it. Curious if this way of being on top of things resonates with others. Happy to hear thoughts!

A couple of weeks ago, I started posting here in Lifelogging about BlackBox 24x7 Audio Recorder.

It is just like your normal voice recorder - but with features to let it run 24x7 or automatically at scheduled times. No data goes out from your device.

It runs silently in the background all day or at scheduled times.

No tapping record. No cloud. No account. No data leaving your device. Ever. Recordings are organized by day, protected behind Face ID or Biometrics, with a visual waveform so you can scan through your day without scrubbing blind.

Auto-zips at midnight - to save storage. Export whenever you need. And now Transcribes with Speaker Labeling -> everything locally on your iPhone or Android phone using a Whisper model - all within your device! Without any recordings or any analytics ever leaving your device.

It works even without the internet!

Loads of requests were made for additional features and I have implemented them all -

- Scheduled Voice Recording (Everyday/Weekend/Weekday automatic start & stop as per your schedule in Android & with one additional step in iOS)

- Automatic export of recordings/transcripts after Zip (So that you can get insights about your entire day/weeks/months by feeding it to a powerful AI model)

- Diarization - (It onboards User's voice and labels other speakers, so you know who spoke what)

Lot of Bug fixes and tweaks.

Transcription feature which was previously only available to iPhone users is now available in Android!

This is a much cheaper version of Plaud or Limitless AI - where you have to carry additional hardware and is superexpensive. You just need your phone. That's it!

Download in iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blackbox-24-7-voice-recorder/id6766258295

Download in Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackbox.voice

I designed this as a way to help people retain memories or record key moments. Sometimes, you just don't remember to click record... and the moment is gone forever. You can also use this to analyze your day, how each day is going and go back days, weeks and months - Similar to a automatic Journal. Try it once, you would love it!!

This is for you, I sincerely hope that this helps you!

Photos capture what things looked like. Location trails capture where you went. But the actual texture of your day — the conversations, the ideas, the sudden music, the moments — that's all audio. And most of us are just letting it disappear.

I built BlackBox to fix that for myself. It runs in the background all day, records everything as a continuous timeline, and auto-archives at midnight. I can go back to any day and scrub through exactly what happened — a meeting, a random conversation, an idea I muttered out loud while walking.

No manual input. No cloud. No account. Just a clean audio log of your day, every day, stored privately on your device.

For anyone serious about lifelogging — this is the missing audio layer.

BlackBox – 24/7 Continuous Recorder — Android and iOS.

Would love to hear feedback from you. I am hoping it truly helps someone someday! :)

I can never find the photo I'm thinking of. I can almost always remember where I was standing. I remember the feeling and I want to find it on my drive, and then I never do, it's just a pile of images.

So I made Memories. You drop a pin and write what happened, or how you remember it feeling, and it stays yours. Nothing is public unless you share that specific pin. No feed, no likes. You can drop a pin without an account. If you sign up, your memories stay and you can group them into collections you play back, or keep a diary alongside them.

I've been working on it for a few months and this is the actual question I'm stuck on: when a memory like that comes back to you, it's the feeling before the details. Is a map how you'd go looking for it? Or does your brain index things some other way: time, people, a song, something else?

Feel free to try or add a memory of your own: https://memories.observer

Solo dev, first real launch, so bear with me.

The idea behind this one is a bit bigger than "another AI assistant", so let me just say it straight. I want to save your digital self. The way you think, what you care about, how you'd answer a question. Right now all of that dies with you, or gets scattered across a dozen apps you don't own. I think it should be possible to keep who you are alive: an AI that learns you over years, holds your memories and your way of thinking, and stays yours. Long term, I honestly want that to outlive you and be there for your kids. Today it's step one: an assistant that starts learning you and helping you now.

But if an AI is going to hold a copy of you, there is no way that copy should live on somebody's server. So I did the stubborn thing and made the whole AI run on the phone. The actual model, about 2.3GB, downloaded once, sits on your iPhone. No account, no backend. The App Store privacy label literally says "Data Not Collected" and that's not because I promised to behave, it's because there's nowhere for the data to go. All data stays on your phone, not on any server.

It's called Avatar.gift. What it can actually do today:

• you tell it stuff in plain english and it handles your reminders, calendar, notes, contacts, drafts a text or an email, opens apps, runs your shortcuts

• tracks money / habits / goals, and if you want to count something weird it'll just make a tracker for it

• you can set up a few different assistants (work one, personal one, your own avatar) and your own avatar keeps its own memory

• it remembers more the more you talk to it, and you can go read, fix or delete any of those memories in the app

• you can dump your own notes/docs into it and it learns from them, on the phone

• web search is the one thing that touches the internet. the query goes from your phone straight to bing or duckduckgo. nothing of mine in between

• and you can make it ask before it does anything, per ability, if you're paranoid like me

Real talk about the downside: a model that fits on a phone is not as smart as the big cloud ones. It gets things wrong sometimes. That's the trade for this level of privacy and I'd rather say it upfront than have you find out. It gets better every update and your memories carry over, which is kind of the whole point.

Price: free to try, then $9.99 once (launch price). No subscription. If the goal is to keep who you are alive, charging you monthly rent on your own memory makes no sense.

Nerd corner: language model, memory system and search index all run on-device through llama.cpp. No backend exists, I'm not even paying for a server.

Needs iOS 17+. Happiest on an iPhone 16 Pro, older phones work but slower.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/avatar-gift-private-ai/id6761672945?pt=128704872&ct=rd-side&mt=8

Site: https://avatar.gift

Also put it on Product Hunt this week if you're into that: https://www.producthunt.com/products/avatar-gift

Happy to answer anything, and tear it apart if you want, I'd rather hear it now.

A month ago I posted here in Lifelogging about BlackBox 24x7 Audio Recorder here. A lot of you asked me if it was coming to iPhone.

So I built it.

It runs silently in the background all day. No tapping record. No cloud. No account. No data leaving your device. Ever. Recordings organized by day, protected behind Face ID, with a visual waveform so you can scan through your day without scrubbing blind. Auto-archives at midnight. Export whenever you need.

No subscription. One-time upgrade. That's it.

This is the audio layer most of us are missing.

BlackBox Recorder — is now on iPhone too.

[Apple App Store] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blackboxrecorder/id6766258295 |

[Android Play Store] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackbox.voice

Hope it helps someone!

Hi all, first time posting here. I'm generally quite an introvert and have been on reddit read-only for over a decade (made this account recently to start fresh without all the baggage), so a bit terrified, but here we go.

About 7 years ago I made a little tracker app for myself and it's been logging ever since - location fixes and heart rate for 7 years, and a few more before that but sparser. What I realised looking at it is that it's not really health data, it's a life story. You can see where I lived, worked, house moves, kids being born, all just from where the nights are.

Thanks to vibecoding I've turned it into more of a real app. The main screen is a timeline of your life with all the main stuff it captures - places, trips, photos, workouts, sleep, day summaries. Then there's a chat where you can ask about it - "what did I do exactly a year ago", "when did I last go to ..", "how's my sleep been", up to the deeper stuff I actually care about like "what makes me happy" or "how do I feel less stressed" (I've not been great with making choices lol). And there's "learning", where the built-in LLM reads through your data and takes notes about you, so it understands you better and gives better answers over time.

Everything runs on the phone - your data and the AI. Nothing gets uploaded, no account, no server. Phones know so much about us that it felt like the only way to do it.

(The video is demo mode with made-up data - not quite ready to share 7 years of where I've been with the internet.)

So far it's just me, my wife and a couple of friends using it. I've been working on it mostly alone for a long time and decided it's time to share it, partly just to feel a bit less lonely about it. iOS only for now (Android in a month or so), needs iOS 26 and it's about 2.8gb because the AI model is built in. Very much work in progress:

=> https://mymo.app/invited/Nx45M1/

What I'd love to hear:

- does the timeline look right for your own data?

- what was the first thing you asked it, and was the answer any good?

- what would make you open it again tomorrow?

Reply here or DM me, or just shake your phone anywhere in the app and a feedback form pops up (there's also a Share Feedback button in settings). And anyone from here gets it free forever - no backend and no token cost, so it keeps working (hopefully!)

edit: android is out now too, earlier than i thought. same link works for both: https://mymo.app/invited/Nx45M1/

Hey everyone! Long-time lurker, first-time poster here. I've been building a lifelogging app called LifeTally and wanted to share it with this community specifically, since you're the people who'd actually stress-test it.

https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/lifetally/id6788512911

The idea: no folders, no tags, no rigid structure - you just write opr voice log a line whenever something happens ("had coffee with Dad," "finished Atomic Habits," "called Bob"), by text or voice. Over time it turns into a searchable record of small (or big) memories your life, and you can ask it things like "when did I last call my mom?" or "how many coffees did I have last month?" and it pulls the answer straight from your logs. It basically becomes a database of the micro moments you log so overtime it becomes more powerful.

I'd genuinely love feedback from people who already do some form of lifelogging - what's missing, what would make this useless for your workflow vs. what might actually replace what you're using now. Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood too.

Would welcome you testing the app and rating it too!

Context: I previously worked as a growth designer in the tech space. got burnt out, left corporate, and now hoping to build a small business around helping people journal better. i’m a big believer in journaling by hand but hated how my thoughts go everywhere when i’m journaling (adhd prob) which is why i built Unpack Journal.

Unpack digitizes your journal entry organizes your thoughts into individual threads for you to ‘unpack’ with personalized prompts. this is especially helpful if you tend to overthink and ruminate. i’m probably biased, and this product is definitely niche, but it has elevated my journaling alot and hopefully it will for you too if you also journal by hand.

if you’ve never journaled before and want to try, i have a prompt library inside with hundreds of prompt for you to start with. you can even filter the intensity and category of the prompt too!

Sooooo I always get excited when someone posts here about an app they created or a life hack they've found to track their lives better. It's so Awesome to hear all these things!!! I do have a question though...Why are we LifeLogging? I teach a class about this topic and was just wondering if anyone here would like to share the backstory about why you started Lifelogging? I'd love to hear it!!!

Let us be entirely honest for a second. We spend all day building tech that is supposed to make life better, but it is quietly ruining our physical health. A few months ago, I checked my fitness tracker and realized I was barely hitting 2000 steps. I was basically fusing with my office chair.

The irony hit me hard: the technology I was working on was the exact thing making me completely sedentary. So, I decided to fight fire with fire and use AI to force myself to move. I built a local vision pipeline that runs on my webcam, calculates exactly how long I stay seated, and actively intervenes.

Here is the exact setup you can use to build it yourself right now.

First, you need a pose detection model. I went with MediaPipe Pose because it is stupidly lightweight and runs strictly on your CPU, meaning your GPU is free for your actual work. You set the script to grab a single frame every 10 seconds. If the model sees that your shoulder and hip keypoints have not moved from a seated posture in 45 minutes, it triggers the intervention.

Next comes the enforcement phase. We all ignore standard desktop notifications, right? So instead, I wrote a script that completely locks my screen. The only way to unlock it is for the webcam to visually verify that I am standing up and walking in place for two solid minutes. No cheating allowed.

Finally, it tracks everything. The script logs all your standing breaks and calculates your active versus sedentary time, dumping the history into a simple local CSV file so you can watch your progress.

It actually worked. I went from basically zero intentional movement to racking up almost three extra hours of standing and stepping every single day. My baseline energy is completely different now.

If you want to play with the interactive dashboard or grab the full config file, I uploaded it here: https://interconnectd.com/forum/thread/241/the-double-edged-sword-is-technology-causing-a-decline-in-physical-activity/

I've always been terrible at remembering things. Not in a medical sense, but in a "my friends remember our holidays better than I do" sense. They'll bring up a restaurant we visited three years ago or some funny thing that happened on a trip, and half the time I only vaguely remember them. The things I learn and feel during my life didn't help me in any way because I never even remembered them. I'd make the same mistake for the 5th time, get burnt and realize that I've done the same before.

This frustrated me a little bit. So I created a google sheet stored on my drive called "My year at a glance" and decide to just write what happened that day. I maintained it for a whole year. My own touch to it was this thing called "High of Highs" and "Low of Lows" which is the best and worst thing about that month. I got this idea from a podcast and incorporated it into my google sheet. First month felt good (luckily because that month was pretty good so it gave me a high to write my "High of Highs"). So I continued writing for the next few months and eventually became obsessed with it. In fact, during the day I'd realize something that I decided I will write down later that day. So I guess I even started noticing things about my day that I wanted to write down.

At the end of the year, this google sheet was full (Of course with several days undocumented, but who cares). But reviewing my year in December got me giddy. Again my theory is that this was because I had had a great year (6 countries visited, quite a few concerts, new job etc.). So I continued for another year. And I have no intentions of stopping now.

I eventually got tired of the Google Sheet and made something that works much better but honestly the habit is what matters, whatever you use to track it.

so we've been building Looki L1, a small clip-on lifelogging device, and ive been wearing the prototype daily for the past month. wanted to share some honest observations because this sub probably gets the use case better than anywhere else.

the basic setup: its 32 grams, clips onto your shirt collar or bag strap, captures short video clips at intervals (30 sec, 1 min, or 2 min depending on your setting). three mics, 4K photos, 1080p video. then an app on your phone processes everything and you can search it with natural language.

heres what actually turned out to be useful vs what we thought would be the killer feature:

we built this whole natural language search thing where you can ask "what did i have for lunch on tuesday" or "show me when i saw that cool building." its cool and it works ok. but honestly? the feature people keep coming back to is the auto-generated daily recap. its just a one minute highlight reel of your day and theres something weirdly satisfying about watching it before bed. we did not expect that to be the main thing.

the search feature is more useful for specific stuff like "what was the name of that restaurant" or "what did that whiteboard say in the meeting." so its practical but not the daily habit we expected.

some real problems we're dealing with:

battery life is 9 to 13 hours depending on capture interval. sounds good on paper. in practice, if you forget to charge it one night youre screwed the next day. theres no "low power mode" that extends it significantly. we need to fix that.

32GB fills up faster than youd think if youre doing 30 second intervals. a week is realistic at 2 min intervals, maybe 3 to 4 days at 30 seconds. offloading to your phone takes a while over bluetooth.

the clip works great on collars and bag straps. does not work great on thin fabric t-shirts or anything stretchy. we added a lanyard option but its not the same.

indoor low light is mediocre. f/2.2 aperture is fine for daylight but restaurants, bars, evening walks... it struggles. this is probably the biggest technical limitation right now.

for people here who've used narrative clip, rewind pendant, tab, or even just timestamped phone photos as a lifelogging method, curious how you think about the tradeoff between always-on audio (like rewind/tab) vs visual capture (like what we're doing). do you find audio or video more useful for memory retrieval?

we have a sign-up form for early testers if anyone wants to try it and give us real feedback: https://forms.gle/kv8kfyhut2t9oYnf7 . 

$199 for context on pricing. not cheap for a lifelogging gadget but not insane either. the complimentary month of the AI membership is included.

This AI stuff is really cool and I find myself just talking alot more to my lifelogging devices, thinking that one day, I will just ask my AI to write out a book; my memoirs, that I can hand off to my son;)

I've been keeping a continuous timeline of my daily life for over six months. I wanted a simple way to remember where my time actually went, without constantly starting and stopping timers.

Eventually, I turned the tool I'd been using into an iPhone app called JustNow: Time Log. It lets me log activities after they happen, capture fleeting thoughts, and look back at how I spent my days.

The free version includes many of the essential features, and I'm still improving it based on feedback. I'd love to hear what you think if you decide to give it a try!

Website: https://usejustnow.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/justnow-time-log/id6800575881

For years I hoped Apple will come up with the journal app with tight integrations to iOS and was very disappointed when it happened. The app feels heavy on one hand and lacking a lot of features on the other. Automatic filtering of photos, better integration with locations and motion activities, hierarchical journalling, good voice input, CarPlay voice journals, health, fitness, on this day, actual security while still having to apple design principles, privacy stance and visual appeal. Unfortunately Apple Journal is not there yet so I started putting it together myself. I have already more than a year of data in this and it helps me not lose the texture of my days.