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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.   
 
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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Personal Science and Quantified Self track to maintain mental and physical health and improve productivity and performance.  
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* Quantified Self<ref>https://quantifiedself.com/about/what-is-quantified-self/</ref> is the community.
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* [[Personal science]] (see also [[Personal Science (book)]]) track to preform scientific method style experiments on health and improve productivity.  
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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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* 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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* [[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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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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* 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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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 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.     
 
  
 
== Steps of self tracking ==
 
== Steps of self tracking ==

Revision as of 23:02, 8 May 2022

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.

  • Quantified Self[1] is the community.
  • Personal science (see also Personal Science (book)) track to preform scientific method style experiments on health and improve productivity.
  • Biohacker[2], Nootropic[3], encourage people to try more extreme experiments with less attention to data.
  • Personalized[4] & Precision[5] medicine[6]. 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.
  • Life extension goal also shares some tools and methods with QS though mostly focuses on formal medical studies.
  • Athletes and coaches often use often use a specialized tool set from QS to increase Sports performance.
  • 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.[7] Self improvement techniques benefit from self tracking.
  • Lifelogging tracks many things about a person to reminisce and evaluate decisions made in the past. Shares tools with QS. Visualizing your Data

Steps of self tracking

Is it worth doing?

Reasons for and against self tracking.

Get inspired by Category:People.

Or people on biohackstack.com.

What are your broad goals?

Ex. improve productivity.

Self tracking disambiguation.

How will you design the project?

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,".

What are you specific goals and how will you measure them?

Ex. improve focus. Measure by looking at number of distractions using ActivityWatch. Exosenses.

Here on the wiki you could try Category:Topics then Category:Tools.

Lists [8] of things that could possibly be tracked.

What exactly will the interventions be?

Ex. drink more tea.

sources for scientific studies : biomindmap

How will you get the data into one place?

Hopefully Open Humans will have an aggregator for each tool you use.

How will you visualize and analyze the data?

Visualize Start learning to analyze by reading Experiment VS Observational study.

Categories of health tracking

monitor and evaluate

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.

optimize

For example "how much coffee do I need?". Underserved. Needing most complicated maths. Potentially useful to absolutely everyone.

debug a problem[9]

Look for triggers of Symptoms like headaches. Needs to be done via self tracking because, vague, sublinical, problem is rare or user is well outside bell curve. Find Community to get support and even push an idea like CFS into medical community. Experiment VS Observational study for experiment design.

Advice on first project[9]

  • First project should be a brief, trial run.
  • Do not overextend; not too long tests or too much tracked
  • Write symptoms as closely as possible to your consequential real experiences. Issues with Self Report
  • Curate with support of time, location, Lifelogging.

References

  1. ↑ https://quantifiedself.com/about/what-is-quantified-self/
  2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/
  3. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/
  4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_medicine
  5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_medicine
  6. ↑ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TKk7rShf9d5ePN7vR/personalized-medicine-for-real
  7. ↑ https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker
  8. ↑ https://old.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/en2580/exhaustive_list_of_things_to_trackmeasure/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/self-tracking
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