Editing User:Gedankenstuecke

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|Related tools=Oura Ring, Fitbit, Apple Watch, R, Genetic testing, RescueTime, Overland, Open Humans
}}

Hi, I'm Bastian and I've been [https://tzovar.as/quantifiedself/ doing different forms of self-tracking] ever since the first Fitbit came out. Since then I've tried to track a lot of different things and still do so! 

== Things I currently track ==

=== About my body ===

* Activity (with an [[Oura Ring]] & Apple Watch)
** Heart rate
** Resting heart rate
** Respiratory rate
** [[HRV (Heart Rate Variability)|Heart rate variability]]
** SpO2
** Body temperature
** Calories burned 
** Steps/Distance walked
* Sleep (with an [[Oura Ring]])
** Total sleep time
** Sleep phases
** Sleep latency
* Weight (with a [[Fitbit]] scale)
* [[Blood glucose tracking|Blood glucose]] (sporadically, with a [[Freestyle Libre]])
* Symptoms (with [[Quantified Flu]])

=== About my mind ===

* Device usage & 'productivity' (with [[RescueTime]])
* Time spent with other people (with [[Google Calendar]])
* Media consumption: 
** Books (with [[Goodreads]])
** Music (with [[Spotify]])
** Social media (restricted to [[Twitter]])

=== About myself in the world ===

* Geolocation (passively with [[Overland]] on my phone)
* Air quality metrics (portable with a [[Plumelabs Flow]] & locally at home with a [[Netatmo]])
* Weather (derived from geolocation data & Dark Sky weather API)

Nearly all the things I keep track of are collected passively without the need for me to actively engage in the tracking. The two main exceptions are keeping track of the books I read (Goodreads automatically logs ebooks, but physical books require manual logging) and the symptom tracking, which requires a single logging action per day. 

== Things I used to track ==

=== Mood ===
I've tried collecting data on my mood through a number of different mobile apps (e.g. [[Reporter for iPhone|Reporter]], [[iMoodJournal]], …) but never managed to get into a good habit of collecting the data 

=== Food / Diet ===
At around 2012 I developed a quite good habit of logging my consumed food via the Fitbit app when actively trying to lose weight, but that habit effectively stopped once I had reached my 'weight goal'.

== Personal Science projects I did ==

* [https://tzovar.as/app-related-stress/ Measuring the impact of different software applications on my stress levels]
* [https://tzovar.as/lockdown-effects/ How did the COVID-19 lockdown change my life? Also see slides of my QS Show & Tell talk]
* I measured how my PhD writing period [https://tzovar.as/phd-survival-guide/ affected my body] and also [https://tzovar.as/writing-up-a-phd/ how I actually did the writing].
* [https://forums.openhumans.org/t/effects-of-smoking-on-heart-rate/298 Effect of smoking on my heart rate].
* [https://forums.openhumans.org/t/seasonality-of-music-mood/274 How does seasonality influence the music I listen to]?
* [https://forums.openhumans.org/t/headphone-vs-environmental-noise-levels/241 How I adjust my headphone volume in relation to environmental noise].

== Projects I currently think about/plan ==

* [[User:Gedankenstuecke/Tracking my grief|Tracking my grief]]

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