Name: Friday
Quick Pitch: Friday is an automated journal for Android meant to augment human memory. Users can ask the app questions about events in their lives and Friday will provide accurate results.
Genius Idea: A personal search engine for your Android device.
We use our mobile phones to do a lot more than make phone calls. We snap and share photos, manage our calendars, update our friends on our status, listen to music, send email, text message friends and family, and use our phones to navigate the world.
In many ways, the actions we take on our mobile phones are representative of our lives, tracking who we know, what we do and where we go. Friday, a private alpha application by India-based startup Dexetra, looks to help you collect these mobile moments and build a journal that you can reference and recall.
“We are helping people remember their lives,” Dexetra co-founder Binil Antony explains. “We thought that since the role being played by the smartphone is so significant, why not use it to assist people?”
Friday indexes and aggregates most of the available data streams on your phone. This includes your calls, text messages, emails, music, battery life, calendar events, photos and location. It uses this information to create a semantic map of your life.
You can use Friday to revisit a past day in your life or you can ask the application questions about where you’ve been or what you’ve done. Think of the latter as a memory aide. For instance, say you want to locate specific photos you took while traversing Central Park and listening to La dy Gaga. Input...
