This page documents the tools I use to observe patterns in my life, health, work, time, money, and behavior.
I track things not because every part of life should be reduced to numbers, but because measurement can reveal patterns that memory misses. Good tracking helps me notice correlations, test assumptions, and make better decisions.
Some of these tools are for health, some for productivity, some for finances, and some simply for understanding how I actually spend my time and attention.
The exact stack changes over time. Some tools are active, some are deprecated, and some are experiments. The important thing is the categories of signal they provide.
Health And Physiology
- exist.io for correlations
- Oura Ring for sleep and meditation
- Apple Health for health analytics aggregation
- iCardio for heart rate and exercise tracking
- Withings scale for weight and Apple Health integration
- myfitnesspal for food, macros, and calories
- Endel for meditation support
- Calm [deprecated]
- Brainbuddy [deprecated]
- Everyday [deprecated]
- caffeine app [deprecated]
Movement And Exercise
- Fitbod for weightlifting [deprecated]
- Jefit for weightlifting [deprecated]
Time, Attention, And Work
- RescueTime for desktop and mobile time patterns
- Atlassian Jira for task tracking
- Jira time logs for time on tasks
- Google Calendar for event storage and sharing
- Fantastical for desktop calendaring
- CalendarBridge for calendar syncing
- time-allocation budgets in Google Sheets
- Fivetran, Tableau Online, and Postgres for time, calendar, and tracking experiments [incubating]
Money And Assets
- Monarch for spend and income tracking
- Mint [deprecated]
- Yahoo for investment tracking
- Interactive Brokers [deprecated]
- Yodlee Money [deprecated]
- Google Sheets for financial asset tracking
Location, Media, And Behavior
- Life Cycle for location and visit tracking
- owntracks for fine-grained location tracking [incubating]
- trakt.tv for media consumption
- Goodreads for book reading
- last.fm for music listening
- podcast tracking ideas [incubating]
- a custom Google Sheet for gifts given, received, and to give
Relationship And Follow-Up
- Contacts+ for contact cleanup and enrichment
- HubSpot for contacts and follow-up