Self Tracking, Types Movements Communities

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.

Personal Science and Quantified Self track to maintain mental and physical health and improve productivity and performance.

Lifelogging tracks many things about a person to reminisce and evaluate decisions made in the past. Shares tools with QS.

Life extension goal also shares some tools and methods with QS though mostly focuses on formal medical studies.

Biohacker, Nootropic, encourage people to try more extreme experiments with less attention to data.

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 their own Habits using techniques like gamification. Many authors recommend self tracking. Self improvement techniques require self tracking tools.

Personalized & Precision medicine. 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.

About self tracking, other pages

For things that self tracing can detect but just daily living can not, see Experiment VS Observational study.

For all benefits of self tracking see Reasons for and against self tracking and quantification.

biomindmap One source for all the studies of relevance. Like Category:Projects but by formal scientists.

biohackstack.com Collection of user's "stacks" (tools and interventions they use.) Similar to the pages on Category:People

Many lists of things that could be tracked. Here on the wiki they are Category:Topics