As long as it's volontary, fine. If you map me behind my back though, be prepared to defend your butt coze I'm definitely kick it.
Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
#12Public Gyroscope profiles show some data like: https://gyrosco.pe/aquilax/zero/
I'm using command line tools with text files as storage to track as much as possible, ledger for finance and two more tools I've built for tracking daily nutrition and timed events. Have a bash script generating a report every hour but don't make these public.
Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
#13That's called "quantified self".
I wish there was a systematically way to do that. I'd be the first to opt-in.
Privacy is overrated. It does more harm than good. Transparency is clearly the way forward, and what we'll lean from large-scale quantified-self will show that.
I'm confident that the model will soon switch from companies paying users (usually with services) to collect their data, to users paying companies to collect their data.
Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
#14I built something in this vein 6.5 years ago, and used version 1 daily* since, capturing data on myself to measure intent vs reality and what factors improved/screwed up my own life, all the while building in self awareness.
Here's why: http://meometer.com/why/.
Version 2 — which I worked on for the past 3 months — comes out in a few weeks and we're looking for beta testers.
[edit: clarity]
*almost
Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
#15I know this project has been going on for a while: http://aprilzero.com
They have already created Saas based on that : https://gyrosco.pe/
Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
#16This sound like Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile. The Dymaxion Chronofile is Buckminster Fuller's attempt to document his life as completely as possible. He created a very large scrapbook in which he documented his life every 15 minutes from 1920 to 1983 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_Chronofile Wonder if you could grab a hand on it through it's foundation archive.
That's... god damn impressive. I can't even maintain a simple diary for over 2 weeks without lapsing...
Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
#17Not exactly what you’re looking for, but related: https://camlistore.org/, see also https://camlistore.org/doc/overview
I thought of Camlistore because it’s goal is
> Camlistore is your personal storage system for life.
However, it’s more of a general storage system or diary than a quantified self application.
From the homepage:
> Camlistore is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem.
Camlistore was started by Brad Fitzgerald (Golang core member and Memcached author)
Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
#18entire.life !
Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
#19https://exist.io is making a good start (not affiliated, just a happy user).
Re: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
#20That's called "quantified self". I wish there was a systematically way to do that. I'd be the first to opt-in. Privacy is overrated. It does more harm than good. Transparency is clearly the way forward, and what we'll lean from large-scale quantified-self will show that. I'm confident that the model will soon switch from companies paying users (usually with services) to collect their data, to users paying companies t…
That's a very interesting expectation! What makes you confident in that?