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Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

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Re: Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

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I recently wrote a similar utility. I'll definitively take a closer look at this. I don't know if you have these features, but here's couple of features I have in mine that you might find useful: 1) I can upload a timeline into Google calendar. I do this by chunking my day into half-hour increments, and whatever I spent the most time on in that half-hour get assigned to the half-hour. (Hey, Google, please let me set…

Any chance you're willing to share this code?

Re: Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

#13

This is very cool. I've wanted something like this for a while.

as part of my dissertation work, i built a related self-monitoring tool, except with a focus on helping scientists/researchers record and annotate their workflow: http://pgbovine.net/burrito.html

Re: Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

#14

That looks absolutely amazing. You(?) even prepared packages. > In general, try to set your programs (editors, terminals, web apps, ...) to include information on what you are doing in the window title. This will make it easier to search for later. So if I'm in the terminal, Selfspy can only tell what I'm doing by the window title?

No, it's just for easier data retrieval with e.g. selfstats.py. It has a -T option that filters by window title, if I understand the docs correctly.

Re: Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

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I've been using

* Karm on KDE/Linux (tracking by virtual desktop, one for each project)

* Manic Time Tracker on Windows (very much like this but with a full GUI. Only works on Windows though)

* For emergencies on Windows there is also Timesnapper which in facts documents in screenshots what happened (in case you have to "prove" it .)

this utility seems like a real improvement on the current situation though. Thanks in advance!

Re: Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

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post #9

This is very cool. I've wanted something like this for a while.

Something like this, which can also string together what I do across phone, tablet and computer would be even more interesting.

I was just thinking the same thing - potentially you could mashup Selfspy with our SnowPlow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) project - so all your behaviour events get logged to S3 and then analysed...

Re: Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

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This is very interesting and the first aspect what stood out to me is the possibility of such a tool being used to enable a form of ongoing user sanitation with regards to security. By that I mean opens up the possibility to collect statistics upon how a user does various tasks and qith that finger print approach enable the ability to highlight acceptions to how the user works. This could in essence provide a form of ongoing verification that the user is who they say they are. That is certainly one possibility this type of approach opens up. The ability to do ongoing user biometrics.

Re: Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

#19

This is an extremely interesting tool but the thought of collecting everything that I have ever typed and storing it gives me the chills, even if encrypted....

You sound like somebody who links there history file to /dev/null. In that I agree, but early days. Though the ability to have everything you typed stored in a controlled way does enable the posibility to see if anything else if collecting that same data in any way and with that opening up the possibility to identify unknown key logging. At the very least it would be another approach and opertunity to spot the bad amongst the good.

Re: Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

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post #11

I recently wrote a similar utility. I'll definitively take a closer look at this. I don't know if you have these features, but here's couple of features I have in mine that you might find useful: 1) I can upload a timeline into Google calendar. I do this by chunking my day into half-hour increments, and whatever I spent the most time on in that half-hour get assigned to the half-hour. (Hey, Google, please let me set…

Any chance you're willing to share this code?

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