CitizenDiary is a digital diary application that allows users to: 1) Customize the diary by arranging glyphs (pictograms representing habits or activities) and preferences according to their needs. 2) Record daily activities and habits by clicking glyphs throughout the day. Additional notes and annotations can also be added. 3) View statistics and counts of daily activities that are automatically accumulated, such as sleep length. Physiological data and use of applications can also be tracked and recorded.

1. CitizenDiary
- spine & core in Quantifying Selves
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It is extremely adaptable for users to And it includes options for
arrange, furnish, adapt and use supplementing diary text with
according to their own habits and pictograms as a kind of shorthand
needs, personal relevancies and for habits in their everyday life.
themes.

2. Main Window

3. Calendar & Addresses

4. Detailed preferences

6. The glyphs menu

7. Body

8. Info

9. Example from user

10. Body-window

12. Retro-notating & Annotating
Either just click this glyph to indicate, that comment applies to
earlier same day
Or place insertion at
earlier time of day
With the button ”ANNOT” another way of referring to preceeding is available:

13. Daily glyph - distribution

14. Internet Browser

15. MyCyberspace-topology

16. CodeSearch

17. Physiological data
A total of 7 fields can record quantified data
Further: various counting-functions, attached to specific glyphs are established:
A counting function inserts the number of times clicked that day :
If, just before going to sleep, one clicks a ”to sleep-glyph” then , on clicking a ”get up”
glyph the next morning, the elapsed ”sleeplength” can be recorded.
The countings are automatically entered in the folowing fields
On clicking in these fields their counts can be manually updated, f. eks. :
The final data, on shift to a new day are automaticaly accumulated in a table – exemplified in the next slide:

18. Statistics
This is an accumulating scrolling field, the data of which can be transferred to other applications.
In its present format it is of very limited use

19. Search
Parse
Parsing for ocurrences of a glyph (Haircut): Parsing for occurrences of a word: (Bookmark):

20. Tools
Link-buttons are automatically colored, making it easy to see wheter they relate to a file, a program or a folder.
When such a link is activated it is journalized into the diary e.g.: 080917 10:52 Open Technologies of the self.doc