Which of today's photos will matter in 20 years? (You're mostly wrong)

Everyone curates for the future using the present's taste — and the future reliably disagrees: it wants the backgrounds, the ordinary rooms, the people mid-gesture.

Looking closer

Bubbles In Time uses Android's display-over-other-apps permission (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW) to float your photos above whatever you're doing, then get out of the way.

The evidence is your own reaction to old photos: what lands from 2006 isn't the posed vacation shot, it's the kitchen wallpaper, the car in the driveway, the haircut everyone had. Context becomes the content.

What follows

Bubbles In Time draws from your own gallery — family, friends, pets, places — and shows them as translucent bubbles over any app, then lets them go.

Rotation strategy that follows: seed a few 'boring' photos per year alongside the highlights. Twenty years from now, those are the ones that will stop you mid-scroll — and the rotation guarantees they'll get the chance.

If you want the mechanism

Bubbles In Time is the practical version of everything above: a floating, on-device rotation of memories you chose, arriving through the day at a cadence you set. $2.99 once — no subscription, no ads, no account, nothing uploaded.