Ask HN: What apps or tools do you use to track things about your daily life?

Re:Ask HN: What apps or tools do you use to track things abo... by thomasmeagher on Thursday August 07, 2014 @11:35AM (#8148223)

I use an iOS app called, Reporter (http://www.reporter-app.com/). It prompts you to answer a set of user defined questions throughout the day- Are you looking at a screen? Who are you with? Where are you? How many cups of coffee have you had?- through powerful surveys.

It also captures "background" data using the phones sensors: number of steps, temperature, volume, elevation, phone battery, etc.

Its great for lightweight tracking and all the data can be exported in CSV or JSON formats.

I wrote an article about the 500 reports I've captured over the last 107 days: https://medium.com/p/c4454b9d8456

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Re:Ask HN: What apps or tools do you use to track things abo... by pizza on Thursday August 07, 2014 @07:44PM (#8150733)

This is exactly the type of thing I've been thinking of making for a while... esp. random sampling

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Re:Ask HN: What apps or tools do you use to track things abo... by rdudek on Thursday August 07, 2014 @01:54PM (#8149076)

that app actually sounds very cool indeed! You don't happen to have a suggestion for an android version?

Lately, I too have been trying to track my daily habits. Pen and paper just doesn't cut it.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps or tools do you use to track things abo... by thomasmeagher on Thursday August 07, 2014 @09:31PM (#8151029)

I do have a suggestion! Not sure if it's any good though.

It's called TagTime (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bsoule.tagtime...) and pings you with random surveys similar to reporter.

Let me know if you use it and how it works out! @thomasmeagher on the twitter.

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