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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 skinnymuch »

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/

Toshl seems like any other modern finance tracker. The bank integrations are Plaid it seems, Which doesn’t cover everything.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by jjice »

skocznymroczny wrote: post #129

Am I the only one who doesn't take daily notes, doesn't build a knowledge database and doesn't track every aspect of my life? I feel out of touch with folks these days sometimes.

Nah, I'd assume the majority of people don't. HN is a crowd that leans towards that kind of tracking and data, and the people that do it probably enjoy it and tend to talk about it more.

I try to keep track of work notes and such, but when I've tried to be super strict about it, I always fall off.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by kgran »

TomSwirly wrote: post #76
scrollbar wrote: post #7

This is super cool. In case you don't make it through to the project's webpage howisfelix.today, and read through to the end, here is the creator's conclusion: Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first s…

I think it's fascinating - and horrifying - that he tracks everything except his environmental impact on the planet. He has to be in the top 1% of polluters, given his obsessive flying and consumption of technology. Dozens if not hundreds of charts, depicting every single thing except the thing that is destroying our world. I filed an issue on his github.

I also find it horrifying that HN folks downvoted you for your well-founded opinion.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by thinkmassive »

stavros wrote: post #95
lbotos wrote: post #86

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For me "quantified self" has been half meditative. I have tracked daily water intake (and only water to keep it simple) and that has been a huge noticeable quality of life improvement. Waterminder on apple watch is the best. This year I added in daily mood tracking, and it's mostly focused on taking 5 minutes a day for myself to just jot notes down quickly. I'm using dailo and I have a few categories too (work good/o…

What was the quality of life improvement in tracking water intake? I find it interesting, because your body tracks it whether you want to or not, and I never found forcing myself to drink more water beneficial.

I briefly tracked water intake since it was a feature in the Garmin app I was using for activity tracking. Ironically it made me worse off, because it interrupted my (extremely simple) natural hydration process.

There were 3 customizable preset capacities, but even using those required a couple taps each time. Drinking a non-standard amount and manually adjust it required extra effort and taps. Sometimes I’d forget to record it right away, then have to try to remember if I was double-counting a refill. The mental burden was clearly out of balance with the (practically nonexistent) reward.

I quit tracking it when I found myself adjusting my behavior, like avoiding the natural habit to top off my water bottle when it was less than half full and I was getting up from the desk anyway. Ultimately it would be interesting to have that data, but it’s only worth it to me for zero cost/effort.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by [deleted] »

TomSwirly wrote: post #76
scrollbar wrote: post #7

This is super cool. In case you don't make it through to the project's webpage howisfelix.today, and read through to the end, here is the creator's conclusion: Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first s…

I think it's fascinating - and horrifying - that he tracks everything except his environmental impact on the planet. He has to be in the top 1% of polluters, given his obsessive flying and consumption of technology. Dozens if not hundreds of charts, depicting every single thing except the thing that is destroying our world. I filed an issue on his github.

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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by spiderice »

Semaphor wrote: post #121
KronisLV wrote: post #113

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For the more lazy among us, there's also Wren which lets you do some estimates: https://www.wren.co/ Then, they actually let you donate/spend a bit of money towards offsetting your individual carbon footprint, towards whatever initiatives you choose (personally donated towards planting trees). It's not like it would have as much of a profound impact as stopping the mega-corps would, but it's still something and prett…

> How much does your household spend on furniture and appliances each month? A little = 140€ / month. Wow. What do people do, redecorate every year? edit: 11 tons of CO₂ per year That's 64% less than the Germany average for your household size. I guess the two of us are pretty ecological ;) But I just realized they didn’t ask about heating (afaik oil based and I have only costs, no usage numbers), so that might make…

> A little = 140€ / month. Wow. What do people do, redecorate every year?

Buy one new couch and there goes your budget for the year.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by grsmvg »

basisword wrote: post #127
grsmvg wrote: post #124

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You're right, there could be many reasons. But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer. It's a fine balance between caring about stuff and wanting to raise awareness while also seeing other human beings for who they are, assuming good intent.

>> But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer I disagree (although 'I fly lots' would be a strange thing to ever be 'proud' of imo, regardless of the climate issues). While we should all be mindful of our individual impact, asking people to restrict themselves personally (or shaming them) on such an important and positive freedom as being able…

I partially agree with that shaming strangers might not be a good way forward. But I also believe in some basic level of 'holding each other accountable'.

Maybe, besides political leaders and businesses, that should be limited to inner circle family and friends with whom you have a more complex relationship, and where there is a little bit more receptiveness towards critique. Even in that context it's probably better to just live the lifestyle yourself and hope they will follow.

On the other hand, if you put something out there, to be discussed publicly on HN, I don't feel obliged to only give positive feedback necessarily. Also, the author picked this up in a really nice way and has already added carbon stats to the page.

But man, it's so hard if you deeply care about something to keep your mouth shut. I don't know if you have any topics that make you feel like that?

Edit: actually responding to the rest of your comment, I'm a strong believer in the power of individual choices. The whole plant-based movement for example in The Netherlands (and outside) over the last few years was fully driven by individual consumer choices and little bits of money shifting in other directions. European politics actually tried to hinder it for a while, but at some point when something becomes the popular thing to think, politics will have to follow.

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