Ask HN: What apps or tools do you use to track things about your daily life?

[sdrothrock]

I've been thinking about aprilzero.com for a while now and how I'd like to have something similar for myself.

What kind of hardware/software stack would you use to track metrics about yourself?

The ideal hardware/software would support simple scheduled export to CSV, XML, JSON, or some other format that can be read/processed.

Pedometer, Resting Heart Rate, Sleep Quality

I'm getting a Basis Carbon Steel for resting heart rate, pedometer, and sleep quality measurements. Basis does NOT offer export or an API, but there is a tool (https://github.com/btroia/basis-data-export) that works for getting your data, so it seems like a good start to me.

Calorie Tracker

MyFitnessPal is the calorie tracker everyone recommends, but does not support exporting data. https://www.designbyvh.com/myfitnesspal-export-data/#.U-L2XoCSxM0 helps you extract your data, but doesn't seem automatable.

I haven't been able to find a robust calorie tracker (for Android) that exports data.

Blood Pressure

I'm not too sure what to do about this -- ideally I'd take measurements several times a day, but it's hard to find something simple to use that I can take to work or wherever I am.

[thomasmeagher]

I use an iOS app called, Reporter (http://www.reporter-app.com/). It prompts you to answer a set of user defined questions throughout the day- Are you looking at a screen? Who are you with? Where are you? How many cups of coffee have you had?- through powerful surveys.

It also captures "background" data using the phones sensors: number of steps, temperature, volume, elevation, phone battery, etc.

Its great for lightweight tracking and all the data can be exported in CSV or JSON formats.

I wrote an article about the 500 reports I've captured over the last 107 days: https://medium.com/p/c4454b9d8456

[pizza → thomasmeagher]

This is exactly the type of thing I've been thinking of making for a while... esp. random sampling

[rdudek → thomasmeagher]

that app actually sounds very cool indeed! You don't happen to have a suggestion for an android version?

Lately, I too have been trying to track my daily habits. Pen and paper just doesn't cut it.

[thomasmeagher → rdudek]

I do have a suggestion! Not sure if it's any good though.

It's called TagTime (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bsoule.tagtime...) and pings you with random surveys similar to reporter.

Let me know if you use it and how it works out! @thomasmeagher on the twitter.

[gregcohn]

For blood pressure (and iOS), the Withings blood pressure cuff works well. Mine has a 30-pin connector and i haven't actually checked to make sure it will work with Lightning yet, but it works fine on an gen2 iPad.

[abengoam]

I'm not on that level but I put manual both measurements and endomondo readouts in a csv file, in my dropbox account. I update it daily with aggregates from the last day and seems to be working ok so far.