year in review

 Year in Review  is a feature on some silos (like Facebook) as well as being a special kind of article on some IndieWeb sites that summarizes important aspects of the past year. In some sense these posts are derivative of and similar to handwritten letters that families might include in annual holiday cards sent to families and friends detailing their major annual updates.

How to update

 * IndieWeb community page: ping in discuss

Zoetica Ebb
Zoetica Ebb published a "Year in Review for 2015:
 * 2015-12-22 Disembarking the Torpedo: Goodbye 2015

Eric Meyer
Eric A. Meyer has been posting "Year in Review" posts since at least 2015: which itself discusses Facebook's feature of the same name.
 * 2015-12-24 A “Year in Review” Review

Ben Werdmuller
has been posting "Year in Review" posts since at least 2015:
 * 2015-12-28 My 2016 year in review

Ariel Waldman
Ariel Waldman published a "Year in Review for 2015:
 * 2016-01-02 2015

Willow Bl00
Willow Bl00 published a "Year in Review for 2015:
 * 2016-01-09 2015 in review

Chris Aldrich
Chris Aldrich published an IndieWeb-specific "Year in Review" on his anniversary
 * http://boffosocko.com/2017/04/25/today-is-my-third-indieweb-anniversary/ Today is my Third IndieWeb Anniversary]

Aaron Parecki
published a Year in Review post for 2017
 * https://aaronparecki.com/2018/01/04/6/year-in-review-2017

Gregor Morrill
published a post with some of his 2017 highlights
 * https://gregorlove.com/2018/01/hello-2018/

Jeremy Keith
published 2018 in numbers which details the number of posts and lots of rich data about his website (along with sparklines). The bottom of his post also includes links to several others' Year in Review articles.

Jeremy Cherfas
published his Annual Report: 2018, which includes some indieweb-related observations.

Tracy Durnell
has been posting a personal annual review and a creative annual review on her secondary website since 2017. Earlier reviews combined reviews and goals, but now they are separated. In 2021 she posted a year in reading and year in listening that pulls from Last.fm's year in review report.
 * 2021 Personal Annual Review
 * 2021 Creative Annual Review
 * 2021 Year-end Reading Review
 * 2021 Year in Music

Jeremy Felt
has been posting some form of annual review or reflection(s) since 2013. He maintains a list of these on a Years in review page.

Murray
tries to post overviews of their year, along with goals for the year to come. These started life as "resolution" style challenges, but have evolved into more generalised "themes" around personal progress. They have also dabbled in more data-focused, "wrapped" style posts:
 * 2019: The Year of Craft JAM
 * 2021: The Year of Adulting
 * 2019 In Numbers

Marty McGuire
published Things I read in 2021 2022-01-13

Facebook
Facebook has a "Your Year in Review" feature

http://meyerweb.com/pix/2015/fb-yir2015.png

Year in review prompt on your Facebook timeline, screenshot from Eric Meyer's post.

GoodReads
Goodreads gives users a "Year in Books" that recaps their year's reading progress of what they read as well as the books they finished. Typically email reminders are sent out in early December, but the review page auto refreshes based on data updates at future times. Example: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2018?int=YYiB18_sa

Pocket
Pocket regularly emails out (semi-private, but shareable) links to users to recap how many words they read during the year and the rough equivalent in number of books. They also advertise most popularly bookmarked articles and other discovery related features. Here's an example of one such year in review post from

See also: https://boffosocko.com/2018/12/28/chris-aldrichs-year-in-pocket/

Strava
Strava annually creates a "Year in Sport" film for your profile, go to the year.strava.com to view it, e.g.:
 * https://2018.strava.com/
 * https://2017.strava.com/ (at some point they dropped it! "2017 Year in Sport videos are no longer available.")

Uber
Uber emailed out a "2018 year in review" on 2019-01-04 that was nearly devoid of content. The rest of their email was about *their* overall year in review (not personal at all)
 * Number of days since joining Uber, end of year rider rating - neither of which are specific to just last year

Swarm
Can be accessed here: https://www.swarmapp.com/user/year-in-review/2018

Shows counts for check-ins, categories and New Places. Then below that there is a map showing all check-ins and top 5 lists of categories and places.



Spotify
Spotify creates a personalized "Spotify Wrapped" review in December each year, which highlights a user's top-listened artists, tracks, and genres, as well as other factoids that change from year to year. It's viewable only on the Spotify app, in a "stories" style format. They also create a playlist of the user's top 100 songs from the year. While presented as an end-of-year wrap-up, it only includes data from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31.
 * https://www.spotify.com/us/wrapped/

Last.fm
Last.fm provides an annual review of a user's listening habits in their Last.year report, released in January each year. It identifies the user's top artists, albums, and tracks from the previous year, and provides graphs visualizing user's listening habits, such as time of day and day of the week, as well as trends in genres ("tags"). Listening statistics are compared against the previous year.
 * https://www.last.fm/user/_/listening-report/year

Untappd
Untappd generates a "Year in Beer" for users each year that displays your most frequently checked-in beers, styles, venues, and friends. Some statistics are compared with those from the previous year.
 * https://untappd.com/yearinbeer

Brainstorming

 * has indicated that since he compiles posts of what articles he reads and captures data about publishers and authors that it might be interesting to do a year in review of these to see which sources he's reading frequently, particularly as a means of adding more diversity to it.