[justinlloyd]

I am not capturing the data quite like the author of the web page, I don't think I have the mental fortitude to do such a thing. I have tried on ocassion to do so, but I've not been able to make it stick.

I have been tracking the metrics of my life to varying degrees for close to four decades now. Every book I've read, every movie I've watched, every music album I've listened too, every science paper I've read through (rather than just glanced at), the bills each month, breakdown of grocery bills by product for the past 20+ years, every recipe I've ever cooked (though not every meal I've ever ate) for the past 10+ years, continuous screenshots of my desktop from my laptops and workstations, and recently (past 8+ years), multiple angle RGBD (colour+depth) photos of my home office and my home workshop. For a few years (between 2001 and 2008) I wore a homemade SenseCam that captured hundreds of photos per day as I went about my life.

I am always interested in other people's personal life logging habits so this is a fascinating insight in to it.

[rustyboy]

I'd love to track all this, but it feels like every few years some new technology comes out and I lose a weeks, months, or years worth of lists somewhere.

Where do you keep all this?

[justinlloyd]

Spreadsheets, OneNote (originally text files, but OneNote for the past 18+ years and probably for the next 18+ years too), cameras captured to JPG or PNG. I don't rely on online services or SaaS websites that can arbitrarily disappear or lose my data.