Timeliner Alternatives

timeliner reviews and mentions

• I Ditched Google Photos
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2023

  Heya! I'm the author of PhotoStructure, and my Google Photos account (before I started working on PhotoStructure) is about that size, too.

  I wrote up some tips here: https://photostructure.com/faq/takeout/

  This is what I did:

  1. First try to fetch all your Google Photos via Takeout in one archive. If it fails (like it did for me), try different-sized .tgz archives. I had to use the 10 Gb option (using 50gb caused an internal-to-google error).

  If that fails to work, the last resort is to manually create by-year albums, shove all photos from that year into that album, and do a takeout of just that album. Repeat as necessary for every year.

  2. Install an app on your phone to *directly* upload the original photos and videos from your phone to your NAS/home server. I have several recommended apps here: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/#...

  At this point, you can still use Google Photos (for viewing and as a last-ditch backup), but your originals are safe (without all the Google Photo downsampling and metadata shenanigans), and you're free to use whatever self-hosted software you want (like PhotoStructure, but there are a ton of alternatives, as well).

  FWIW, I also tried this software: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner -- it does what it can, but the files you get via the API has a bunch of metadata stripped from it. I even had captured-at times get mangled with older photos.

• Start Self Hosting
  30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2022

  This is why I'm building Timelinize [1]. It's a follow-up to my open source Timeliner project [2], which has the potential to download all your digital life onto your own computer locally, and projects it all onto a single timeline, across all data sources (text messages, social media sites, photos, location history, and more).

  It's a little different from "self hosting" but it does have a similar effect of bringing all your data home and putting it in your control.

  The backend and underlying processing engine is all functional and working very well; now I'm just getting the UI put together, so I hope to have something to share later this year.

  [1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize (website coming eventually)

  [2]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner

• Consider SQLite
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2021

  Not a "big project/service" but a Go project that uses Sqlite is one of my own, Timeliner[1] and its successor, Timelinize[2] (still in development). Yeah the cgo dependency kinda sucks but you don't feel it in code, just compilation. And it easily manages Timeline databases of a million and more entries just fine.

  [1]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner

  [2]: https://twitter.com/timelinize

• Can you synchronise Google photos to/from phones and computer bidirectionally?
  1 project | /r/googlephotos | 17 Nov 2021

  This looks promising but might be a bit complicated for you: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner

• What is the equivalent of "Apple removed 3.5mm jack" of your favorite products ?
  5 projects | /r/AskReddit | 21 Jan 2021

  I made Timeliner to download my Google Photos: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner -- requires some tech prowess for now, though.

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