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Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life, from Sleep to Mood to Pain, 24/7/365

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I made a big graph of time spent on my business:

http://files.dangrover.com/timechart061509.png

never thought of doing that for just normal life stuff, though.

At some point, I want to run some sort of statistics software on my time tracking data, sales, customer support volume, etc.

That's really interesting. Are you using any tools to do the actual time tracking? Are those productive hours per day? How do you cope with distractions? I noticed you don't have "idle" time in your chart.

Right -- only actual, focused work. I track it manually with an app called OfficeTime.

Might consider trying RescueTime (disclosure-- I'm on of the founders and we're a YC company!).

We're pretty close (finally) to an API if you want to get fancy. :-)

Just last week I started hacking together a tracking app to do this sort of work... but I quit when I found

http://your.flowingdata.com/ and http://www.daytum.com/

Does anyone think there is room for multiple players in this space? If so, what would they need to do to set themselves apart?

I'd be interested in getting more biometric feedback, including my food consumption - but it's a pain in the ass when you make something from whole ingredients, and then on top of that have to find out what fraction of the prepared meal you actually ate.

If I make a stir fry, it would take me 20 minutes just to figure out how many calories I ate, much less other stats. Sell me a widget that'll somehow track if for me, and I;ll just give you my wallet.

I would really like an offline tool where my data stays with me. I do not feel comfortable if someone else knows everything about my life. It is a major privacy problem.

I would not pay for it though (unless it is flawless and <5€). And it would need to be Win & Linux, and easy to transfer/sync (manually). Of course it would need to support custom fields.

that's incredible! there's actually a productive and meaningful way to use twitter!

I've been doing this for myself in one form or another for years. I've tried logging my weekly life in hourly chunks via a spreadsheet. I've set up multiple blogs for the different facets of my life.

Lately, I've just been going by the maxim of "go to bed better (at something) than when I woke up." The only thing I'm tracking in detail is my daily weight and the progress of my web app.

I'd love to be able to use something that could track all sorts of my personal data (mood, health, food intake, etc.). The biggest hurdle is gathering and retaining the data. My iPhone is probably the best tool that could be used for this at this point, but it's still not convenient enough for everything.

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