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The issue I've had is that while each service does have an API for pulling data in automatically, it's tedious connecting to all of them at once. I'm sure there are multiple startups out there working on a data platform for quantified self - Segment.io for my own data - and I'd love to see a framework like Anand's applied to that.

Food intake, water intake, caffeine intake, many forms of exercise, and even the work you do daily (depending on job) aren't easy to track. Jawbone UP have a nice caffeine app that is useful if you remember to use it. I've heard of water bottles which register the movement of a sip. I still haven't found a food tracker that works for me - MyFitnessPal is the universally acclaimed one but I loathe it. Taking photos of one's food is a simple enough proxy if you aren't interested in the overall nutritional composition but more the qualitative part (and you can actually outsource and - to a small extent - automate nutritional tagging from photos). But yes, we are a long way away from being able to let much of this data be tracked automatically.

I think the important part is to figure out what questions you want to ask, if you aren't dedicated to tracking for its own sake. Are you having trouble focusing in the afternoon? Do you want to figure out if your sleep is a factor? Track your sleep religiously and go from there.