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Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?

• andai 9y ago
  Every Facebook user, ten years in the future? Seriously though, that does seem to be the direction things are headed.
• profiTROLL 9y ago
  NSA
• robert_yphsilon 9y ago
  I know this project has been going on for a while: http://aprilzero.com http://aprilzero.com
  • rtcoms 9y ago
    They have already created Saas based on that : https://gyrosco.pe/ https://gyrosco.pe/
• pella 9y ago
  Ask this on https://forum.quantifiedself.com/ https://forum.quantifiedself.com/ or check QS : - http://quantifiedself.com/2017/05/qs17-preview-dashboard-life/ http://quantifiedself.com/2017/05/qs17-preview-dashboard-lif...
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• Twisell 9y ago
  This sound like Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile. The Dymaxion Chronofile is Buckminster Fuller's attempt to document his life as completely as possible. He created a very large scrapbook in which he documented his life every 15 minutes from 1920 to 1983 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_Chronofile https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_Chronofile Wonder if you could grab a hand on it through it's foundation archive.
  • Cyph0n 9y ago
    That's... god damn impressive. I can't even maintain a simple diary for over 2 weeks without lapsing...
• aphextron 9y ago
  Facebook.com
• lalalawrence 9y ago
  Try Facebook? There is someone out there ocd with themselves ?
• lalalawrence 9y ago
  Try Facebook? There is someone out there ocd with themselves ?
• LeozMax 9y ago
  As long as it's volontary, fine. If you map me behind my back though, be prepared to defend your butt coze I'm definitely kick it.
• aquilax 9y ago
  Public Gyroscope profiles show some data like: https://gyrosco.pe/aquilax/zero/ https://gyrosco.pe/aquilax/zero/ I'm using command line tools with text files as storage to track as much as possible, ledger for finance and two more tools I've built for tracking daily nutrition and timed events. Have a bash script generating a report every hour but don't make these public.
• miguelrochefort 9y ago
  That's called "quantified self". I wish there was a systematically way to do that. I'd be the first to opt-in. Privacy is overrated. It does more harm than good. Transparency is clearly the way forward, and what we'll lean from large-scale quantified-self will show that. I'm confident that the model will soon switch from companies paying users (usually with services) to collect their data, to users paying companies to collect their data.
  • andai 9y ago
    That's a very interesting expectation! What makes you confident in that?
• poirier 9y ago
  I built something in this vein 6.5 years ago, and used version 1 daily* since, capturing data on myself to measure intent vs reality and what factors improved/screwed up my own life, all the while building in self awareness. Here's why: http://meometer.com/why/ http://meometer.com/why/. Version 2 — which I worked on for the past 3 months — comes out in a few weeks and we're looking for beta testers. [edit: clarity] *almost
• jitl 9y ago
  Not exactly what you’re looking for, but related: https://camlistore.org/ https://camlistore.org/, see also https://camlistore.org/doc/overview https://camlistore.org/doc/overview I thought of Camlistore because it’s goal is > Camlistore is your personal storage system for life. However, it’s more of a general storage system or diary than a quantified self application. From the homepage: > Camlistore is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem. Camlistore was started by Brad Fitzgerald (Golang core member and Memcached author)
• thebiglebrewski 9y ago
  entire.life !
  • chadoh_ 9y ago
    Aw thanks, @thebiglebrewski! I'm the creator of https://entire.life https://entire.life, and I'm happy to see people are finding it from this post. While at this point in time Entire.Life is a rather poor fit for what @tdist is looking for, I think its approach works better for most people who aren't looking for such nitty gritty details of the minutia of every day. It's good for getting perspective and documenting The Big Things, but so far isn't great for tracking _everything_. That said, my ambitions are larger than that. There's the whole Entire.Life Emporium (https://entire.life/emporium https://entire.life/emporium), which right now has a very humble offering of things I hand-built, but which I aspire to open up to other developers in the future. I think integrations with Fitbit, Strava, etc would make complete sense for Entire.Life. And in that way, if you're as comfortable as @miguelrochefort with having corporations collect all of your data for you and then rent it back to you, you'll be able to use Entire.Life as a window into all such data.
    • thebiglebrewski 9y ago
      Hi Chad!
• peterwallhead 9y ago
  https://exist.io https://exist.io is making a good start (not affiliated, just a happy user).