minutiae: Real Life

minutiae: Real Life is a unique anti-social media Chrome extension designed to help you document your daily life by capturing one random minute every day. Unlike traditional social platforms, minutiae encourages users to record the ordinary, often overlooked moments of life, creating a personal digital archive that can eventually be transformed into a physical book. Each day, at a random minute, all participants worldwide receive an alert simultaneously and have exactly one minute to capture whatever moment they find themselves in. Users can then explore their own past moments as well as those of a randomly matched stranger, fostering a subtle connection without the pressures of social media popularity or data exploitation.

This innovative extension emphasizes privacy, spontaneity, and authenticity. It rejects the norms of instant gratification and social media timelines, instead offering a slow, collaborative and artistic approach to self-portraiture and memory preservation. Its "Do Not Disturb" mode ensures there are no disruptions during nighttime. Featured in prominent media outlets such as Wired, Financial Times, and Monocle, minutiae is not just an app but a manifesto against conventional social media, focused on capturing the richness of real life through forgotten memories and random moments.