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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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[[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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* 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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[[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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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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* [[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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Athletes and coaches often use often use a specialized tool set from QS to increase [[Sports]] performance. 
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* [[Money]] ficial management. Somewhat like lifelogging and, when curbing spending, somewhat like habit improvement.
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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 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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Get inspired by [https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/Category:People Category:People].   
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Or people on biohackstack.com.
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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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==== How will you design the project? ====
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Read Gary's new book with advice like '"overreach is tempting, especially when the topic of concern touches on unresolved controversies in health science" and "the most important tool in the personal science kit is not hardware or software but a written log of notes and reflections,".
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==== What are you specific goals and how will you measure them? ====
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Ex. improve focus. Measure by looking at number of distractions using ActivityWatch. Exosenses. 
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Here on the wiki you could try [https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/Category:Topics Category:Topics] then [[:Category:Tools|Category:Tools]].
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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 possibly 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 get the data into one place? ====
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Hopefully [[Open Humans]] will have an aggregator for each tool you use.
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==== How will you visualize and analyze the data? ====
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[[Visualizing your Data|Visualize]] Start learning to analyze by reading [[Experiment VS Observational study]].  
  
 
== Categories of health tracking ==
 
== Categories of health tracking ==
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See also [[Experiment VS Observational study]]
 
  
 
==== monitor and evaluate ====
 
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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.
 
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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== Advice on first project<ref name=":0" /> ==
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* First project should be a brief, trial run.
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* Do not overextend; not too long tests or too much tracked
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* Write symptoms as closely as possible to your consequential real experiences. [[Issues with Self Report]]
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* Curate with support of time, location, [[Lifelogging]].
  
 
== References ==
 
== References ==
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[[Category:Personal Science community]]
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[[Category:Topics]]

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