Journaling and note-taking

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When you want to write down thoughts instead of data. Main tool for Lifelogging. A type of Manual input.

How to quantify written text

While journaling can be useful to put data into context, it is hard to quantify.[1]

One option is to summarize each entry with a few keywords. Writer could identify such keywords with hashes making hash tags. Keywords could be automatically determined algorithmically by building an index of all words used and removing the ones too common in language[2].[3]

Second is to automatically determine user's Mood using sentiment analysis.[4][5]

Tools

Many show and tell investigators prefer pen and paper. Paper text can be converted to electronic using OCR.[6]

Word processing apps allow typing using full keyboard.

  • Notepad++. Easily handles hundreds of thousands of lines. Time stamps require some setup.

On a smart phone similar tools exist. I use Mysymptom's built in notes field instead of a proper notepad. DG (talk)

Apps specifically designed for this:

  • dayoneapp.com
  • logg[7]

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Projects that use this tool  
A Decade Of Tracking Headaches, A Diabetic's Experiment with Self Quantification, A Four-Year Journal, A Life Of Fractals, An “Unknown and Incurable Illness”, Breaking the TV Habit, Crying, Data From My Year As A Nomad, Elimination Diet + Functional Medicine, Estrogen And Invention, How I Lost 200 Lbs., Leaning into Grief, Learning about Biases and Gaps in my Self-Collected Data, My Father, a Quantified Diabetic, My Health Scars, My Phone Use Data, N=1 Personal Informatics, Optimizing Productivity, Over-Instrumented Running: What I Learned From Doing Too Much, Overthinking Everything I Own, QS Tools for Military Style Training, Quantified Curiosity, Quantified Self and the London Olympics, Reverse Mood Tracking, Self Experimentation, Sophia (w/ Richard Sachs), Sub-Perceptual Psilocybin Dosing, The Coffee Experiment, Tracking Happiness, Tracking INR, Tracking Oral Anticoagulation Therapy With INR Journal, Using Self-Tracking to Hack Musculoskeletal Pain, Weight Loss Through Embodied Learning
Self researchers who used this tool  
Stephen Maher, Brooks Kincaid, Morris Villarroel, Justin Timmer, Damien Blenkinsopp, Valerie Lanard, Robin Weis, Mark Moschel, Eric Green, Shara Raqs, Richard Harrison, Dana Greenfield, Shannon Conners, Stefan Hoevenaar, Ellis Bartholomeus, Joost Plattel, Shaun Wallace, Brian Crain, Thomas Blomseth Christiansen, Matt Manhattan, Troy Angrignon, Amy Robinson, Sky Christopherson, Dr. Alan Greene, Mariusz Nowostawski, Karen Herzog, Janet Chang, Robin Barooah, Ashish Mukharji, Robert Rothfarb, Robert Rothfarb, Bryan Ausinheiler, Robin Barooah
We talked about this tool in the following meetings  
2022-02-03 Self-Research Chat
  1. ↑ https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/NaturalLanguageProcessing.html
  2. ↑ https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wordnet/index.html
  3. ↑ https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/corpus/vignettes/corpus.html
  4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
  5. ↑ https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SentimentAnalysis/index.html
  6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition
  7. ↑ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digieggs.deathstar.logg
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