That said - it would be cool to see something like this open sources. Currently I'm using excel to track most of the stuff I'm interested in, but I know that there must be a better alternative.
That said - it would be cool to see something like this open sources. Currently I'm using excel to track most of the stuff I'm interested in, but I know that there must be a better alternative.
If this was just a journal, I would agree with you and make it self-contained. But it's not. In the next 5-10 years we're going to be seeing a massive number of wearable sensors embedded in our clothes, appliances and tools. A managed, online API will be better able to be always available, consuming this tsunami of data and turning it into useful insights for you.
You might also ask the people I @-mentioned in https://twitter.com/skram/status/363367826326695936
You could track things related to your programming such as lines of code, optimizations made, errors encountered, bugs fixed, refactoring done.
Primer on quantified self: http://quantifiedself.com/about/