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I'm a fan of quantified self, but I'm not comfortable sharing this data with yet-another third party service. Tracking email, browsing habits, application usage

by conroy 13y ago

I'm a fan of quantified self, but I'm not comfortable sharing this data with yet-another third party service. Tracking email, browsing habits, application usage, etc. is valuable, but the collected information should stay on my laptop. [edit]: Cozy is a self-hosted web application (similar to ownCloud) so you're sharing the data with yourself. My point about browsing history and application usage still stands. About six months ago I wrote an OS X app (and browser extension) that tracked all my computer usage. It never grew past a prototype, but I'm thinking of starting work on it again.

icebraining 13y ago
This doesn't seem to be a third-party service, but a self-hosted webapp.
jsilvestre 13y ago
Cozy is a self-hosted platform that values privacy. You could upload the data from your osx app to YOUR cozy on YOUR server and make mashups with your other data. It is very valuable information so it is better if you actually hold that value :)
- conroy 13y ago
  Very cool. I've haven't heard of Cozy before and just assumed it was another email provider, not a similar offering as ownCloud.
gelnior 13y ago
We could maybe build a bridge between you app and KYou. Did you push it on Github?
- conroy 13y ago
  Yep, the code is open source: https://github.com/kyleconroy/Timesuck https://github.com/kyleconroy/Timesuck
  - gelnior 13y ago
    awesome! I will look this week-end if I can contribute to your project and add an option to save the results into KYou.
sebkomianos 13y ago
wakoopa was one my favourite applications so if you start working on your project again you have your first user already. :)
andrewschleifer 13y ago
> About six months ago I wrote an OS X app (and browser extension) that tracked all my computer usage. It never grew past a prototype, but I'm thinking of starting work on it again. It's ObjC and not python, but you might be interested in this -- https://github.com/andrewschleifer/Slife https://github.com/andrewschleifer/Slife
perssontm 13y ago
But can I host this on my own server?

by conroy 13y ago

icebraining 13y ago

This doesn't seem to be a third-party service, but a self-hosted webapp.

jsilvestre 13y ago

Cozy is a self-hosted platform that values privacy. You could upload the data from your osx app to YOUR cozy on YOUR server and make mashups with your other data. It is very valuable information so it is better if you actually hold that value :)

conroy 13y ago
Very cool. I've haven't heard of Cozy before and just assumed it was another email provider, not a similar offering as ownCloud.

gelnior 13y ago

We could maybe build a bridge between you app and KYou. Did you push it on Github?

conroy 13y ago
Yep, the code is open source: https://github.com/kyleconroy/Timesuck https://github.com/kyleconroy/Timesuck
- gelnior 13y ago
  awesome! I will look this week-end if I can contribute to your project and add an option to save the results into KYou.

sebkomianos 13y ago

wakoopa was one my favourite applications so if you start working on your project again you have your first user already. :)

andrewschleifer 13y ago

> About six months ago I wrote an OS X app (and browser extension) that tracked all my computer usage. It never grew past a prototype, but I'm thinking of starting work on it again. It's ObjC and not python, but you might be interested in this -- https://github.com/andrewschleifer/Slife https://github.com/andrewschleifer/Slife

perssontm 13y ago

But can I host this on my own server?