Gordon Bell has created custom designed software, MyLifeBits, that records and saves everything  he does during the day. “The last time he counted, MyLifeBits had more than 101,000 emails, almost 15,000 Word and PDF documents, 99,000 Web pages, and 44,000 pictures.”

He is attempting to bring Vannevar Bush’s Memex idea to life, in which technology could be used to save everything and browse as a supplement to your memory.

Another similar type of project, also being undertaken at Microsoft, is LifeBrowser. Eric Horowitz is attempting to create software that would “automatically identify the most significant events in your life, so that when you scroll back through your history, it shows you only the most important highlights.”

Source: Fast Company A Head For Detail