- My first Google search on my primary account was on Christmas in 2011 for “potato sack hoodie”. Apparently I haven’t cleared my search history since. - A few months ago, I spent hours scrolling my old Tumblr blogs and loved that they acted as a type of “[resonance calendar](https://aliabdaal.com/newsletter/using-notion-as-a-resonance-calendar/)” timestamping when I was listening to a particular song or was especially interested in a movie or show. - I think this is value information about us – [[{2.1a} the essence of the everyday]]. - It occurred to me last night that my [google activity](https://myactivity.google.com/) would be a more comprehensive version of the same thing. - It may not indicate the *first time* I came across something that resonated with me, but it does tell me, for example, that I was rewatching [Salad Fingers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuCw5k-Lph0) on December 10, 2012 at 4:34 p.m. - It’s frustrating because I actually like having a lot of this data, but I want to be the one controlling it. Feels very opaque.