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Self tracking is used for different purposes by various movements. Other movements have similar characteristics to Personal Science. This section aims to mention them all.   
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Self tracking is used for different purposes by various movements. Other movements have similar characteristics to Personal Science. Self tracking is most important for people suffering from chronic undiagnosed or sub-clinical problems. This section aims to mention them all. Use this page to decide if you want to self track, select the type and goal of self tracking and find a community that does similar things. See also [[Reasons for and against self tracking and quantification|Reasons for and against tracking]].   
 
  
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* Quantified Self<ref>https://quantifiedself.com/about/what-is-quantified-self/</ref> is the community. The "quantified" means it requires empirical analysis skills.
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Personal Science and Quantified Self track to maintain mental and physical health and improve productivity and performance.  
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* [[Personal science]] (see also [[Personal Science (book)]]) track to preform scientific method style experiments on health and improve productivity. Goal personal discoveries not general truths. 
 
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* Biohacker<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/</ref>, Nootropic<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/</ref>, encourage people to try more extreme experiments with less attention to data.
 
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* Personalized<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_medicine</ref> & Precision<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_medicine</ref> medicine<ref>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TKk7rShf9d5ePN7vR/personalized-medicine-for-real</ref>. Idea that medical treatments should be tailored to individual based on the individual's characteristics, like genome. Like personal science but doctors do the decision making.
 
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* [[Life extension]] goal also shares some tools and methods with QS though mostly focuses on formal medical studies.
 
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* Athletes and coaches often use often use a specialized tool set from QS to increase [[Sports]] performance. 
 
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* Self improvers do not aim to optimize health but do try to change cultivate their own [[Habits]] using techniques like gamification. Many authors recommend self tracking.<ref>https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker</ref> Self improvement techniques benefit from self tracking. 
 
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* [[Lifelogging]] tracks many things about a person to reminisce and evaluate decisions made in the past. Shares tools with QS. [[Visualizing your Data]]   
 
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* [[Home Automation]] Automate everything in your house, eg so the lights shut off when you enter your car. While the goal typically is unrelated to self tracking many automation tools can record every automated change, thus providing a log of actions.
 
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* [[Money]] ficial management. Somewhat like lifelogging and, when curbing spending, somewhat like habit improvement.
 
  
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== Categories of health tracking ==
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[[Lifelogging]] tracks many things about a person to reminisce and evaluate decisions made in the past. Shares tools with QS.
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See also [[Experiment VS Observational study]]
 
  
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==== monitor and evaluate ====
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[[Life extension]] goal also shares some tools and methods with QS though mostly focuses on formal medical studies.  
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For example "have I gotten enough exercise?". Compare success to goals. Most devices and apps are for this. Could train sense to degree that device is not needed. Like [[Mindfulness]]. For example, sensitize to physical signals to let body regulate weight and prevent overeating. Can lead to hypothesis.
 
  
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==== optimize ====
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Biohacker<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/</ref>, Nootropic<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/</ref>, encourage people to try more extreme experiments with less attention to data.
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For example "how much coffee do I need?". Underserved. Needing most complicated maths. Potentially useful to absolutely everyone.  
 
  
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==== debug a problem<ref name=":0">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/self-tracking</ref>====
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Athletes and coaches often use often use a specialized tool set from QS to increase [[Sports]] performance.
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Look for triggers of [[Symptom tracking|Symptoms]] like headaches. Needs to be done via self tracking because, vague, sublinical, problem is rare or user is well outside bell curve. Find [[Communities|Community]] to get support and even push an idea like CFS into medical community. [[Experiment VS Observational study]] for experiment design.
 
  
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Self improvers do not aim to optimize health but do try to change their own [[Habits]] using techniques like gamification. Many authors recommend self tracking.<ref>https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker</ref> Self improvement techniques require self tracking tools.
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Personalized<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_medicine</ref> & Precision<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_medicine</ref> medicine<ref>https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TKk7rShf9d5ePN7vR/personalized-medicine-for-real</ref>. Idea that medical treatments should be tailored to individual based on the individual's characteristics, like genome. Like personalized science but doctors do the decision making.   
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== Steps of self tracking ==
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==== Is it worth doing? ====
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[[Reasons for and against self tracking and quantification.|Reasons for and against self tracking.]]
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Perhaps get inspired by [https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/Category:Projects Category:Projects] and [https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/Category:People Category:People].
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==== What are your broad goals? ====
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Ex. improve productivity.
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Self tracking disambiguation.
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==== What are you specific goals? ====
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Ex. improve focus.
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Here on the wiki you could try [https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/Category:Topics Category:Topics]
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==== How will you measure success? ====
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Ex. 
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Lists <ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/en2580/exhaustive_list_of_things_to_trackmeasure/</ref> of things that could be tracked.
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==== What exactly will the interventions be? ====
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Ex. drink more tea.
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sources for scientific studies : [https://biomindmap.com/nodes/620 biomindmap]
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==== How will you visualize the data? ====
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[[Visualizing your Data]]
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==== How will you analyze the data? ====
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Analyze starting from [[Experiment VS Observational study]]. Read this before step 3 becasue it also advises on
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NOTES FOR LATER
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aggregate?
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devices?
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vis and anyl / explore?
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---plan type f study!! -- or how mch info you can apply
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biohackstack.com Collection of user's "stacks" (tools and interventions they use.) Similar to the pages on
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project design
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its easy to go down a "blind alley" so record everything
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answer from personal perspective not general and do not try to prove something grand jus tyour own ideas -gary
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s new book... the entire book is really jus tthe hting to answer the how do tdesign and make general goals section
  
 
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