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by nikij 2339 days ago
This problem will only apply to very few people. But over the past 2.5 years I've been tracking everything and deriving insights on my activities. This produced some astounding results. e.g. Chewing gum makes me more comfortable in a conversation. Recently I've found a community of robot-like people on reddit who also do this. So I decided to build a platform. It's still in its early stages but feel free to check it out: simplelifedata.com
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I just started trying to track data about myself for the same reason, but I've run into the issue that there are basically infinite variables, and I don't know which ones to choose. How have you approached that problem? You must have been collecting pretty granular data if you were able to associate chewing gum with comfort in social situations.
Can you point us to the community?

Any other insights you’ve discovered? I tracked my data for a year and discovered strawberries were a potent mood enhancer.

The challenge for me has been habit when I try to do this. If I have to manually break context and focus to log then I don't wish to. I want to monitor everything but passively without having to do any work.
I would like to have something like that too.

A centralized place to record things like that: - Arts: cinema, theater, books, ... - Travels: from, to, flight? car? - etc...

Started writing some code but let it for other things, maybe I would come back.

I’ve been thinking about this as well and even got bodmark.com to push out a prototype. (body benchmark) Let’s chat and maybe even collaborate.
I really liked the idea, just wish there could be a demo, or even a preview without the need to sign up. It would make a better onboard :)
I like the sign up flow that simply uses a Google login, personally. And its going to need some way to keep track of a user so they can update on mobile and PC, etc.

Mostly I agree on hating things requiring a login but I'm okay with it in this case.

Nice! This scratches a bit of an itch I've had for wanting to track some simple datapoints / personal log.