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I put my whole life into a single database

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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by brewdad »

joshuahutt wrote: post #41
JZL003 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also feel like it gets to a roundaboutway of 'proving' things people already know. More sleep is nicer, unless it's so long it's bc you're sick. Drinking more means more dancing. Days when you sit all day working are less fun than walking around with friends (and, of course, not working then) I feel like keeping a rough journal and manually revisiting would be more helpful than quantifying and correlating. But fina…

True, but it seems like it would be nice to know where to draw the lines. More sleep is good, but how much more? Etc. Sometimes, it feels like there's so much going on that it's hard to know if it was the sleep, the diet, the events, or something else. That's where the data might be nice.

Sleep, diet, life events all negative. GIGO.

Although, I probably could do with some life changes, they need to be manageable.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by Kiro »

greggsy wrote: post #10

This post is interesting, but the whole project seems like a vanity project to put on your resume. I’d argue that it’s peak vanity project. Once you have the basics of collect>summarise>publish metrics, it’s trivial to add just one more. Do people really need every single aspect of their lives measurable to this degree? Does anyone (other than your mother) really care? I, for one, would hate for this to become a thin…

> seems like a vanity project to put on your resume

What's your problem with vanity projects? And since when is doing side projects for your CV wrong?

> Do people really need every single aspect of their lives measurable to this degree?

No, but it's fun? "Do people really need X" can be said about anything.

> I, for one, would hate for this to become a thing.

No-one is forcing you to look at it and even less participate in it.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by cesnja »

JZL003 wrote: post #5

I think bots are a great way of automating your life in fun ways. It's also my new favorite project to suggest to people starting to program, because just a little bit of customizability goes a long way Tracking mood is great. A simple telegram bot -> a google sheet lets telegram do the mobile/desktop UI and you just control the logic One overlooked thing is automating financial tracking/categorization. In the US the…

Toshl is a finance tracker (and much more) with bank integrations. I don't use it, but I guess you could outsorce this type of work to the app.

https://toshl.com/bank-connections/

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by cocoflunchy »

dabedee wrote: post #45

This project is super cool. I would recommend the author starts tracking the amount of CO2 he emits in a year, which could easily be approximated with the flight/transportation and food data he has. Carbon emissions per Capita per year in the US: 18 metric tonnes. In Italy: 8 metric tonnes [1]. Author is probably close to 60-80 with all the transatlantic flights. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2…

Taking 0.15kg/km he's already at 100 tonnes of CO2 just for flights over the past 7 years. (https://howisfelix.today/graphs/screens/jetlovers-stats.png)

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

cesnja wrote: post #54
JZL003 wrote: post #5

I think bots are a great way of automating your life in fun ways. It's also my new favorite project to suggest to people starting to program, because just a little bit of customizability goes a long way Tracking mood is great. A simple telegram bot -> a google sheet lets telegram do the mobile/desktop UI and you just control the logic One overlooked thing is automating financial tracking/categorization. In the US the…

Toshl is a finance tracker (and much more) with bank integrations. I don't use it, but I guess you could outsorce this type of work to the app. https://toshl.com/bank-connections/

How is this different from mint.com for transaction tracking?

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by Simon_O_Rourke »

This is super cool!

Initially I thought this was going to be some quip, like "I put my whole life in a single database.... and it was two tables of ten rows each".

But getting your personal data out front and in the open, does worry me somewhat how it might be exploited by nefarious parties, or even insurance companies, finance companies etc.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by fjfaase »

About ten years ago, I started to track my life in a diary, recording when I got up, all my traveling, what I made for dinner, which pages I read and such. I started doing this because I felt time was flying. I have the feeling that it did a little to counter this feeling. But it also made me aware of the amount of procastination (web surfing), which at times has been kind of depressing. It did me give a good sense of time and how long it takes to get somewhere. It sometimes has been useful to recall what I did on a certain date. But that is all. I have thought about putting all data in database and make some graphs of it, but so far it feels like the effort does not weight up the benifits. One thing was also about what details to include and what to leave out, as there also some intimate details in there that I am note sure if I want to store in a digital database.

I also keep a personal website with some list of things I did and this has proven useful to serve as my backup memory.

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