Lifelogging with LLMs: weekly Claude podcasts from journals, sleep and finance data
thejaan · x · 2026-09-24
Researcher Jaan Altosaar published an essay on six months of lifelogging with LLMs: he feeds hundreds of weekly note edits — journals, doctor notes, finances, sleep data — to Claude, which generates a weekly personal podcast; one session even moved him to tears. He includes interactive visualizations, a how-to guide, and guardrails. Key caveat: about 10% of sentences are hallucinated (one claimed his dad was recovering from surgery in Estonia), so he recommends no cross-session memory, no follow-up reassurance-seeking, a fresh session every 5-10 weeks, and never treating it as therapy.
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