The first of a new year seems like a good day to assemble, aggregate, summarize and publish various year in review posts for the prior year. When various online services create a year in review for you many weeks before the end of the year (whether #Spotify #Wrapped or #Strava #YearInSport), it seems they are short-changing you. No one asks for an 11 months in review (except HR departments, which is a different problem). So why do people accept only an ~11 months summary when services provide such a premature “year” in review? When people say things like “Make every day count” do they not also believe you should “Count every day”? In this case, 2024 had 366 days. You should count every one of them, and every thing from every one of them. Rather than “sharing” a premature year in review, request your “year in review” today on the 1st of the year from various services, extract the data you want, fill in any gaps, and post your year in reviews on your own site^1. #yearInReview #ownYourYearInReview This is post 2 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts ← https://tantek.com/2025/001/t1/15-years-notes-my-site-first → https://tantek.com/2025/001/t3/strava-year-in-sport-how-to-get-info-save Glossary: year in review https://indieweb.org/year_in_review ^1 https://indieweb.org/year_in_review#IndieWeb_Examples

The first of a new year seems like a good day to assemble, aggregate, summarize and publish various year in review posts for the prior year.

When various online services create a year in review for you many weeks before the end of the year (whether #Spotify #Wrapped or #Strava #YearInSport), it seems they are short-changing you.

No one asks for an 11 months in review (except HR departments, which is a different problem).

So why do people accept only an ~11 months summary when services provide such a premature “year” in review?

When people say things like “Make every day count” do they not also believe you should “Count every day”?

In this case, 2024 had 366 days. You should count every one of them, and every thing from every one of them.

Rather than “sharing” a premature year in review, request your “year in review” today on the 1st of the year from various services, extract the data you want, fill in any gaps, and post your year in reviews on your own site¹.

#yearInReview #ownYourYearInReview

This is post 2 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts

← https://tantek.com/2025/001/t1/15-years-notes-my-site-first
→ https://tantek.com/2025/001/t3/strava-year-in-sport-how-to-get-info-save

Glossary:

year in review
https://indieweb.org/year_in_review

¹ https://indieweb.org/year_in_review#IndieWeb_Examples