User:Gedankenstuecke

Hi, I'm Bastian and I've been 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
  • 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 (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, 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'.