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Ask HN: How to track everything about myself?

9 points by gesman ↗ HN
I want to track everything (as much as possible) about myself in automated fashion and in as private/secure way as possible.

Movements, sleep patterns, coffee and alcohol consumption, expenses, etc...

I working on "self-awareness-analytics" project that will be able to graph/discover interesting personal patterns - but it needs data. And I don't want to manually enter such data.

I'm ok with using tracking apps - but prefer to minimize number of apps, favoring ones covering multiple life areas with strong privacy stance.

Any ideas?

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gwintrob
Check out https://gyrosco.pe/
gesman
Looks interesting. They should get rid of this though: "...Due to high demand, we currently have a waitlist...".

Wtf? are they selling hardware? or their computers cannot keep up with high demand?

I call marketing BS.

gesman
PS: Kudos for them to list data-gathering apps which is useful.
dangrossman
Yes, keeping up with demand can exceed the capacity of your computers. It can also exceed the capacity of your code when you discover bottlenecks that didn't appear before usage grew to a certain level. Users demand human resources as well; Anand and Eric can only handle so much customer support on their own (right now it looks to be a 4500 users : 1 employee ratio), and you can't scale staff instantly by pressing a button.
gesman
Does it allow me to access raw feeds data?
nicolasd
Why do you want to track everything? Just for curiosity… I had a jawbone and tracked every meal, but after a while I gave up because the data wasn't valuable for me
gesman
I interested in building personal, private analytics dashboards to find previously unknown personal correlations between inner moods, feelings, emotions and health states with external factors, such as food/drink intakes, duration of sleep, exercises, travel patterns and other trackable activities.

I also want to visualize long term events such as quality of relationships (gained or lost), occupations and income dependencies from short and long term habits.

This whole project depends on ability to gain access to raw data feeds and then playing with them.