Self Quantified Movement
Lifelogging
Lifelogging is the process of tracking personal data generated by our own behavioral activities. While Lifestreaming primarily tracks the activity of content we create and discover, Lifelogging tracks personal activity data like exercising, sleeping, and eating. This may sound a bit confusing but hopefully, the distinction between the two makes sense. The Quantified Self movement takes the aspect of simply tracking the raw data to try and draw correlations and ways to improve our lives from it.
A real type overview of the Lifelogging solutions here.
The Quantified Self is an international community of users and makers of self-tracking tools who share an interest in “self-knowledge through numbers.” If you are tracking for any reason — to answer a health question, achieve a goal, explore an idea, or simply because you are curious
What are the main reasons for Self Tracking?
self-healing = becoming healthier
self-discipline = rewarding aspects of it
self-design = control and optimize “yourself”
self-association = associated with movement
self-entertainment = entertainment value
The Habit of Tracking is a Training for Noticing
Tracking your life is another habit. Tracking is just another discipline or habit you can track.
So, at its most basic in order to track everything, you need to create a habit out of it. Each day you take certain regular actions to record what you were doing. Ideally, all tracking would be done passively. There are a lot of tools that let you get a lot of passive data about your life from computer usage time and music listening to steps and heart rate. The completeness around different areas of tracking is growing.
Each of these examples is a specific tool for a specific activity. Most times these tools are there to help you do something specific. But as we think more and more about personal data and tracking, we are looking for tools that bring with it the added bonus of storing a history of your usage and, hopefully, a way to access and visualize your usage. You want a tool that records you.
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