By nature of living online, just about everything I do is recorded and therefore can be measured.

Lifestreaming + personal unit testing = lifetracking

Background

http://hober.backpackit.com/pub/1233865

Inspiration

"The time has almost come for a service to tell your story for you."  -Dave  <-- That's also Dave's way of thinking like a so-sneaky statistician and wanting to develop beyond the daily reflection requirement.

"The smallest events can have a huge impact on your future."  -Me

Goal:  Incorporate Personal Unit Testing with lifestreaming to track progress to a specific goal, chart your personal highs and lows, and provide context for the data we generate every day.

• Daily reflection of successes, challenges, and insights
• Mash up with photos / tags / etc of content from conversations and events from each day
  • get events and tags from facebook / gCal?
  • twitter messages (and replies?)
  • flickr / facebook photos of or by you
  • Del.icio.us <--- what new ideas were introduced
  • Mash with Compare People for external opinion?
• This will be a lot of content with a high signal to noise ratio!  Make it easy for users to highlight their ah-ha moments, inspiration, and micro turning points
  • Example:  Moments after this twitter message I realized how I could combine my nutrition exploration and barcamp to challenge people's beliefs about the food they eat.  Which then led to this twitter message.
  • Example:  One mis-categorized craigslist ad created an entirely new dream
• Make it work with PPA?
• Chart everything with Dipity
  • I am more and more frequently wanting to find content I created on a certain day or related to a thread of events, like when researching for my blog post regarding my recent health issues.
    • 1) Reflecting back was a very powerful experience to remind myself where I was at those points
    • 2) Bringing the reader back provides an entirely new context to what I'm saying now and what was going on then
• managed mode: set a goal to reach or state to maintain
  • productivity:  monitor app usage / files saved / emails answered / keystrokes.  If productivity falls, enhance mood with music known to increase output.  If frustrated (via defined error states such as redoing files, typos, biorythms), play relaxing music or encourage user to take a break.
• Foods, feelings, and faculties diary
• Music's effect on emotion

FriendFeed is great and all, but I've already had enough aggregation and commenting, tyvm.

Units I would test

• Spend at least 15 minutes per day with the SS community
• Eat ___ grams of fiber
• Didn't end a meal feeling like I ate too much
• Didn't leave email unanswered
• Get to work before 10
• Didn't wake up thinking "crap, I should have washed my hair"
• Took meds
• Daily insights, challenges, successes (no matter how seemingly mundane)
• Didn't fall asleep with the lights on
• Spent 30 minutes per day reading something I didn't have to click on
• Wrote 1 insightful blog post per week on either sophistechate or technarium