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Fabric is a personal location-based journal that catalogs your experiences and interactions.
How does it work?
Fabric aggregates the context provided by your phone to chronicle your activities.
It takes advantage of your iPhone’s location features, accelerometer, and step counter to understand movement. It identifies visits to publicly listed places (provided by Foursquare) or private places you add.
Fabric allows you to tag your contacts and followers to keep track of your interactions. You can also add friends to tag them automatically when you’re together.
Fabric augments your photos with the real-world places and people associated with them.
It then uses all this context to create interesting aggregate visualizations of your experiences that include, for instance, the cities or restaurants you’ve been to.
How does connecting with friends work on Fabric?
You can choose to be friends with your contacts or followers who are also using Fabric. Whenever you spend time together after you do this, you are automatically added to each other’s journal.
Your friends cannot see your location at any other time.
How much battery does Fabric consume?
While Fabric needs to run in the background in order to use your iPhone’s location features, we have prioritized minimizing the impact it has on your battery life.
We’ve taken advantage of significant improvements in iPhone hardware and software technology to bring down battery usage to levels that were not possible until recently.
In random testing with typical background usage, we have found it to consume less than 5% of your battery as measured by iOS.
How can I send feedback?
Send an email to feedback@echo.works
What if my data is incorrect?
Because Fabric optimizes its usage of your iPhone's hardware to preserve battery, your data might be occasionally inaccurate.
We provide tools for you to curate your journal. You can edit any individual moment in your day by tapping the Moments button and then tapping the moment in question.
If the place Fabric chose for your moment is incorrect, you can pick a different one or add your own.
If you observe a mistake that these tools cannot address, please send us a note at feedback@echo.works and also a debugging report:
What happens if I connect my Facebook or Twitter account?
Fabric uses your Facebook or Twitter account to fill out your profile and allow you to tag your followers. Fabric does not post to Facebook or Twitter without your permission.
