Self Tracking, Types Movements Communities

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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.

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[1], Nootropic[2], 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.[3] Self improvement techniques require self tracking tools.

Personalized[4] & Precision[5] medicine[6]. 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

Is it worth doing?

Reasons for and against self tracking.

Perhaps get inspired by Category:Projects and Category:People.

What are your broad goals?

Ex. improve productivity.

Self tracking disambiguation.

What are you specific goals?

Ex. improve focus.

Here on the wiki you could try Category:Topics

How will you measure success?

Ex.

Lists [7] of things that could be tracked.

What exactly will the interventions be?

Ex. drink more tea.

sources for scientific studies : biomindmap

How will you visualize the data?

Visualizing your Data

How will you analyze the data?

Analyze starting from Experiment VS Observational study. Read this before step 3 becasue it also advises on


NOTES FOR LATER aggregate? devices? 

vis and anyl / explore?

---plan type f study!! -- or how mch info you can apply

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

project design

its easy to go down a "blind alley" so record everything answer from personal perspective not general and do not try to prove something grand jus tyour own ideas -gary s new book... the entire book is really jus tthe hting to answer the how do tdesign and make general goals section

References

  1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Biohackers/
  2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/
  3. ↑ https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker
  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://old.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/en2580/exhaustive_list_of_things_to_trackmeasure/
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