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Quantified Self: My Online Life in the last 8 Months

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This blog post is not a good quantified self post. A self quantified post should at least details the goal of what he's trying to accomplish, what intervention he's taking, and if he achieves his goal in the end. Otherwise, the information is just a curiosity.

Even my incomplete self-quantified post at http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts#self-quantif... contains information about the intervention I am taking(walking 10K steps) and my goal(achieving a BMI of 24.9 or weight of 159 pounds).

Do you always need to have a goal to qualify for a "good" quantified self posting? I dont think so! Maybe it is interesting for me to see what pages i surf, how long i read stuff, etc. Maybe i love to get statistics about myself? Maybe it will help me in the future? So please, dont use this as the only measurement!

Hi - I noticed English isn't your first language, and just a minor style note, it's typical to capitalise "I" wherever it appears in the sentence.

Yeah haha. With my recent interest in logging my own life I'm sometimes asked why or what the end goal is. Really there isn't any definitive one except to learn and self improve in any way possible.

There doesn't seem to be a single porn site listed.

Maybe he didn't include them or maybe didn't visit any, but I imagine it would have been quite a bit more interesting to see a study including them.

Well, archify is not archiving when in private browsing mode :)

eztv.it made it, which is a torrent site for tv series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EZTV

yes, its a great site! as i said, i check there what new series are running, i did not said i download them :)

That first table had me confused. read those dots as decimal points. rather than separating points,,,

Depends on where you live, there's no standard.

yes, euro-style . vs ,

The ISO standard recommends using a small space instead.

Numbers consisting of long sequences of digits can be made more readable by separating them into groups, preferably groups of three, separated by a small space. For this reason, ISO 31-0 specifies that such groups of digits should never be separated by a comma or point, as these are reserved for use as the decimal sign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31-0#Numbers

I did not knew that there is an ISO standard for this, will use it the next time, thank you!

You mean the standards/convention vary by region. :)

On the other hand, if writing in English, it makes sense to use the conventions for English, not the German ones just because you might happen to be German.

Me too! I read the "So i get around 2.500 items/day in my Twitter stream, which is quite a lot!" and thought, "Does he mean mentions or what? Why would he output the number to three significant features."

I shrugged it off and continued to be amazed by the data this app can collect and promptly signed up for the beta.

How well do you handle long term data aggregation? Do you import from other tools?

I use a combination of RescueTime (always on) and ThinkUp (social media) to capture my data. Neither precompute aggregate data so viewing long term totals is very slow. I have 3000h logged in RT for this year alone and I have 3.5+ million rows of data in my ThinkUp DB. One of these days I'll get around to doing something cool with their data.

at archify you can connect you facebook, twitter & linkedin account, we then import all your streams into our database (elasticsearch cluster). the same goes of course with the webpages when you have the plugin installed (works on chrome, safari, ff, ff mobile, dolphin).

the stats are not the main feature of archify, people can search online in their archify to find stuff again they have already seen, so you dont have to active bookmark anymore.

Can anybody throw a idea of comparison between their service and rescuetime? I'm a rescuetime user, should i consider trying their service?

hi aangjie6,

archify is about finding your personal information, the analysis is a byproduct

for just time tracking, especially desktop applications i recommend you continue using rescuetime

Any opinions on Rescuetime competitors? I think Rescuetime's free plan only keeps data for a few months so I'd have to go in and extract the data every so often.

I found Desktime.com recently and started using it last week. Free for personal use, paid for multiple users/businesses. Any thoughts?

unfortunately not, I haven't used any time tracking software so far - just wanted to point out that the focus of archify is currently not time-tracking

No numbers on the HN stories read, comments posted, etc? Lame ;)

hehe, the next time, i promise!

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