Quantified Self

23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself #article

Beeminder #webapp - "Your goals can be anything quantifiable — weight, pushups, minutes spent on Facebook, points on Duolingo. Answer with your number when Beeminder asks — or connect a device/app below to auto-report — and we'll show your progress and a Yellow Brick Road to follow to stay on track. If you go off track, you pledge money to stay on the road the next time. If you go off track again, we charge you."

Daylio #app - "Keep a free private diary and capture your day without writing down a single line!"

Daytum #webapp - “Daytum helps you collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data.”

A day with RescueTime Premium #article - “Here are some of the ways we use RescueTime Premium in a typical workday, helping us stay focused, and motivated. We hope they'll help you, too!”

Exist.io - “Track everything together. Understand your behaviour.”

Flow - “Flow is a habit tracker and personal data analytics app that lets you keep focus on what matters. Flow owns none of your data. That's yours.” #HabitFree

Gyroscope - “A new operating system for the human body.” Requires a Facebook account to login.

HAPIfork - On KickStarter. Seems to be discontinued. "HAPIfork Is the Smart Fork That Helps You Eat Healthier, Eat Slower and Lose Weight By Eating at the Right Time and at the Right Speed"

How Tracking My Life Changed Everything #video

Keeping your Quantified Self Honest with Exist.io, Beeminder and Zapier #article - “Apps like Exist.io are great for capturing data from multiple places and helping you perform correlation and analysis on what behaviors drive objectives in your life. But like all tools, they cannot help you if you don’t use them. Consistent usage is key in order to have the best data for Exist.io to perform correlations and analysis on your behalf and driving you towards successful achievement of your goals. So that raises the question, “How do I make myself use the darn thing consistently?””

Mappiness #software - iOS app. “Join the world’s biggest happiness study. Learn what most affects your wellbeing. Contribute to research on environments that help us flourish.”

Quantified Self - "Quantified Self supports every person's right and ability to learn from their own data. We're committed to accuracy, independence, inclusiveness, and transparency in all of our work."

RescueTime #webapp #software #app - "RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive."

Subjective - "Track what really matters. Go beyond counting steps and calories. Measure what’s truly meaningful to you."

TagTime #software #app - “Stochastic Time Tracking for Space Cadets.” On the play store

Unforgettable.Me #software - Android app. “People forget stuff. Important stuff. And yet hundreds of times a day we rely on our fragile memory systems to make decisions both big and small. The purpose of unforgettable.me is to eliminate forgetting. Our smartphone app constantly and automatically records the events of your life and uploads them to a search engine that allows you to retrieve them when you need them.

Visualizing reading #thread - "To get more insight into my reading, I decided to switch the comments from titles to ISBN numbers, then combine the Beeminder API, Google Books API, and D3 to get a nice picture of what I’ve read. The outcome lives here:" link

Welltory - "Measure your stress and energy levels with your smartphone"

Zenobase - "Store, aggregate and visualize your data."