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- 1. Tools of the Trade The best tools to encourage self quantification.
- 2. What Am I Tracking? • Sleep • Physical activity/Fitness stats • Happiness • Calories
- 3. Three Lessons Learned • Data collection must be passive • Low involvement is good, automatic is best • Almost every tool is worth the money
- 4. Sleep • There are really only three players: • Zeo - http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/ • Lark - http://lark.com/products/lark-pro/features • Sleep Tracker - http://www.sleeptracker.com/
- 5. Quick Comparison Zeo Lark & Sleeptracker • Measures brainwaves • Measures movement, • Costs $99-150 heart rate, etc. • Mobile accessible • Costs $99-150 • Mobile accessible
- 6. Physical Fitness • Too many devices to count, here are a few: • Fitbit - http://www.fitbit.com/ $99 • Bodybugg - http://www.bodybugg.com/ - $99 (requires online subscription) • Bodymedia - http://www.bodymedia.com/ - $150 • Nike Fuel Band - http://nikeplus.nike.com/plus/products/fuelband - $150 • Fitocracy - https://www.fitocracy.com/ • Withings Scale $160 - http://www.withings.com/en/bodyscale
- 7. Quick Impression • Review of Bodybugg vs. Fitbit: http://tweakfit.com/fitbit-vs-bodybugg-reviews • Review of Fitbit vs. BodyMedia: http://quantifiedself.com/2011/05/fitbit-vs-body- media/ • I’ve found Runkeeper to be more accurate but less convenient: http://runkeeper.com/ • Fitbit is easiest, tolerably accurate
- 8. Happiness • PACO for Android devices (still in Beta): https://quantifiedself.appspot.com/Main.html • Random Reminder $0.99 + Notepad: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co m.appspot.sohguanh.RandomReminder&hl=en • Annoyster (iOS only): http://www.annoyster.com/ • Experial looks cool (iOS only): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/expereal/id57104 1935?mt=8
- 9. Quick Impression • Happiness data is worth 10x more than other data • Whatever keeps you collecting is worthwhile • Testing PACO, close to ideal • Would be interested to hear about different tools
- 10. Calories • Lots of devices purport to track calories automatically, mostly it’s manual though • Calorie Tracker $Free: https://itunes.apple.com/app/livestrong.com- calorie-tracker/id295305241?mt=8 • Lose it $Free: http://itunes.apple.com/app/lose- it/id297368629?mt=8 • Daily Burn $Free: http://itunes.apple.com/app/dailyburn-calorie- workout/id378928008?mt=8 • MyNetDiary $Free: http://www.mynetdiary.com/
- 11. Quick Impression • I have experience with Calorie Tracker, works well • Still takes a lot of effort • Biggest problem with any of the tools: packaged food vs homemade food
- 12. Stuff I Haven’t Tried • Lifebox for audio recording life (Beta) - http://lifeboxapp.com/ • Memoto (Not released) - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/martinkallstro m/memoto-lifelogging-camera • RescueTime ($6/mo) - http://www.rescuetime.com/ • Beeminder $Free - https://www.beeminder.com/ • Last.fm - http://www.last.fm/
- 13. Quick Calculations • Average cost of doctor’s visit: $60 • Median ER visit cost in 2009: $615 • Average cost of hospital stay in 2011: $15,734 • Cost of every app/device mentioned: $1,174.50 • All of them would only need to decrease your expected lifetime medical costs by .4% to be profitable.
- 14. Wishlist • Waiting for LumoBack: http://www.lumoback.com/ - $150 • Basis Heartrate Monitor - https://mybasis.com/