Hello.

Beeminder: How To Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding
http://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia/
(via Danny, aka @mala. I really like the look of Beeminder. I’m going to start tracking some goals, and I’ll let you know how I get on with it.)

Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity hack
“Don’t break the chain”
http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret

AV Club: Hackers may have been of its time, but it was also ahead of it
(They forgot the classic, prescient line: “RISC architecture is going to change everything”)
http://www.avclub.com/articles/hackers-may-have-been-of-its-time-but-it-was-also,72249/

The Wirecutter - A list of great technology
http://thewirecutter.com/
(Really useful reviews. Thanks, Arthur.)

It’s short term nostalgia Wednesday!

Twitter is not especially well designed for trawling through the past to learn from what we’ve done. It can feel a bit ephemeral, and it’s not designed to easily offer a useful historical record of what we’ve shared in the past. A lot of things are springing up to fill the supposed need of what-was-I-doing-this-time-last-year. I’m using a few different services to regurgitate my life back at myself, though I’m not exactly sure I’d miss it if they stopped tomorrow. If you’re interested in trying some here are the ones I’m using at the moment. For reasons that will soon become obvious, I don’t suggest you use them all at once.

Timehop
“Hello from the past” “Where were you a year ago today?”
(This was previously known as ‘Foursquare and Seven Years Ago’, and then PastPosts. I was (re-)introduced to this by a reader back in #19. (Thanks Rina). Since then I get an email every morning reminding me of what I tweeted exactly one year ago. Or, sometimes four years ago, which I like even more.)
http://timehop.com

Memolane
“Rediscover your greatest memories”
http://memolane.com/ Memolane has been around for a while as a personal data aggregator, introducing a timeline concept long before Facebook’s timeline. I started getting regular emails from them reminding me of what I’ve tweeted, photographed etc not long after I signed up fro Timehop, so now I often get the same stuff twice. Learn from my mistake: don’t sign up for both.

Photojojo’s PhotoTimeCapsule
“Your old photos are wonderful again… Twice a month, enjoy an email with your photos from a year ago. ”
http://photojojo.com/timecapsule/
(via @mrlockyer. Thanks Stephen.)

OhLife
“We send you friendly emails asking “How’d your day go? You reply and write as much as you want… You end up with a really neat collection of your life stories”
http://ohlife.com/
(also via @mrlockyer. Thanks Stephen. Unlike the others, this one doesn’t mine your past tweets but invites you to get into a new habit: emailing yourself privately with a few words about what you’ve done that day. I’m trying it but I don’t think it will stick.)

Yours sincerely
Roo

Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds