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

  • 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.

  • 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'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.