Personal informatics is a class of tools that help people collect personally relevant information for the purpose of self-reflection and self-monitoring. The...

Quantified self refers to the practice of using wearable devices and other modern technologies to collect data about one’s own life and health.

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Hi everybody! I’ve been enjoying developing and using an app for measuring+optimizing happiness+efficiency over the last ~9 years, but I’ve been having difficulty getting users to try it out and to give feedback. Would anybody here be interested in any of: Trying it out and offering feedback? Suggesting how to get more feedback? The application has a bunch of properties that I think are super interesting: Record what you do Super-convenient autocomplete: it only requires pressing a few bu...

I started a data blog on my quantified self journey. You can read the first post here. Let me know what you think, and if there’s anything in particular you’d be interested in reading in future posts. Thanks!

I for one, find it fascinating to see other people’s data, and see what conclusions they’ve come to about themselves. My question is, how many qualms about sharing your biometric data do you have (voluntarily and publicly, as opposed to giving it to a company to improve ad selection…)? There have been performance art projects like livestreaming a constant video of themself, publishing their every location, etc. I’m curious where people draw the line.

This is a general topic for discussing ideas about personal dashboards for your self-tracking data. I started it with some posts from earlier topics that were happening on the forum, sparked by @LNP. I apologize for some slight timeline issues on the posts and making small edits to add coherence, but I think it will be worth it. #virtualbreakout

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The self-tracking trend is about much more than physical wellbeing.

Quantified Self Quantified Self (QS) is the term that embodies self-knowledge through self-tracking. The list of things that we can measure about ourselves is endless: among others our heart rate, respiration, hours slept, or even the number of sneezes and coughs during a day. However, not all important things in life can be measured and not everything that

As self-trackers are pushing the movement forward, entrepreneurs are helping it scale...

The purpose of this website is to support anybody who wants to use empirical methods to explore personal questions. We call this practice “everyday science.” In the decade that we’ve been working with people doing self-tracking projects, we’ve come to appreciate the diversity of motivations, methods and tools people use to gain insight into a...

Lifescope lets you search the internet of you using passive automatic life logging. Connect accounts for events, people, places, things, and digital content in one lifelogger. Built on BitScoop.

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