Hi! * John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've really been getting into the Quantified Self movement recently,
Same holds to me. I just wanted to post almost the same things you did. :-) > and by "getting into," I mean reading and watching videos and > /thinking/ about things I'd like to track about myself. [1] I've been > pondering what kind of "platform" to use for my data collection... > Excel? Some time tracking application? Those were after-thoughts. I > thought of Org-mode right away and it seemed like an obvious choice. I chose Org-mode before I got into QS. And it seems to me an almost perfect match. > -- Sidemark: double-dash followed by a space will be interpreted as the start of your signature. At least in my newsreader (ML->Gmane) your posts consists of /awful/ long signatures :-) > Has anyone done something like this? I did not /plan/ my QS/Org-mode setup thoroughly (yet): I am using habits to track some things that re-appear within five weeks or less. For tracking events, I am using todos that repeat every 20 years or so. Those todos I mark as done whenever an event occurs. This results in drawers like: :LOGBOOK: - State "DONE" from "TODO" [2011-10-05 Wed 00:16] - State "DONE" from "TODO" [2011-09-24 Sat 15:27] - State "DONE" from "TODO" [2011-09-08 Thu 08:49] - State "DONE" from "TODO" [2011-08-05 Fri 08:35] - State "DONE" from "TODO" <2011-07-03 Sun 14:28> :END: I admit that I did not know about org-collector.el before this thread. I will definitely look into that as well. I do not have anything useful for analyzing or visualizing Org-mode data yet. If org-collector.el does not turn out to be the solution, I plan to write my own Org-mode parser in Python. My brain is not «compatible» with LISP, I'm afraid. When I've got the time stamps in Python, I can do whatever I like. I'd love to see an Android app for quick input. Mobile Org for Android has to much overhead for this purpose. I want to have an app that I can start and touch one single button when I want to log a timestamp of an event. Optionally it should ask me for a text/number/amount. It'd be perfect when this QS-app is providing widgets so that I can put such «event XY happened»-icons on the main screen to be able to quickly log any event. One button type for each event I want to capture. I played around with Android apps that try to log my position using WiFi network, cell triangulation, or GPS. They all had their issues. Bad luck so far. (LifeLogger, GPSLogger, ...) > -- On that note, what's the best way to get data out of > org-habit/headlines and into something a bit more usable like csv? Sorry, nothing I know of so far. But something very nice I already did: Memacs[2] With Memacs, you can get many different data sources back into your possession, back into your agenda: emails, tweets, bookmarks, git-commits, text messages, phone calls, photographs, usenet postings, and so forth will appear in your agenda. I do like Memacs a *lot*. Once you have set up Memacs, it runs by its own and provides a diary that writes itself :-) Every Memacs-user reported very positive aspects she/he did not think of this before so far. I plan to write that Python-Parser also to fetch Memacs-data and generate (general) visualizations like: * events per day/week/month/year * average time between events * ... 2. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs -- Karl Voit
