Quantified Self: My Online Life in the last 8 Months

http://blog.archify.com/quantify-self-my-online-browsing-in-the-last/

by karli • 14 years ago

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roymabookie• 14 years ago

That first table had me confused. read those dots as decimal points. rather than separating points,,,

chris_p• 14 years ago

Depends on where you live, there's no standard.

vavoida3• 14 years ago

yes, euro-style . vs ,

unwind• 14 years ago

You mean the standards/convention vary by region. :)

On the other hand, if writing in English, it makes sense to use the conventions for English, not the German ones just because you might happen to be German.

crisnoble• 14 years ago

Me too! I read the "So i get around 2.500 items/day in my Twitter stream, which is quite a lot!" and thought, "Does he mean mentions or what? Why would he output the number to three significant features."

I shrugged it off and continued to be amazed by the data this app can collect and promptly signed up for the beta.

aangjie• 14 years ago

Can anybody throw a idea of comparison between their service and rescuetime? I'm a rescuetime user, should i consider trying their service?

vavoida3• 14 years ago

hi aangjie6,

archify is about finding your personal information, the analysis is a byproduct

for just time tracking, especially desktop applications i recommend you continue using rescuetime

skinnymuch2• 14 years ago

Any opinions on Rescuetime competitors? I think Rescuetime's free plan only keeps data for a few months so I'd have to go in and extract the data every so often.

I found Desktime.com recently and started using it last week. Free for personal use, paid for multiple users/businesses. Any thoughts?

Claudus• 14 years ago

There doesn't seem to be a single porn site listed.

Maybe he didn't include them or maybe didn't visit any, but I imagine it would have been quite a bit more interesting to see a study including them.

karli6• 14 years ago

Well, archify is not archiving when in private browsing mode :)

pinaceae• 14 years ago

eztv.it made it, which is a torrent site for tv series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EZTV

karli6• 14 years ago

yes, its a great site! as i said, i check there what new series are running, i did not said i download them :)

driverdan• 14 years ago

How well do you handle long term data aggregation? Do you import from other tools?

I use a combination of RescueTime (always on) and ThinkUp (social media) to capture my data. Neither precompute aggregate data so viewing long term totals is very slow. I have 3000h logged in RT for this year alone and I have 3.5+ million rows of data in my ThinkUp DB. One of these days I'll get around to doing something cool with their data.

karli6• 14 years ago

at archify you can connect you facebook, twitter & linkedin account, we then import all your streams into our database (elasticsearch cluster). the same goes of course with the webpages when you have the plugin installed (works on chrome, safari, ff, ff mobile, dolphin).

the stats are not the main feature of archify, people can search online in their archify to find stuff again they have already seen, so you dont have to active bookmark anymore.

kiba• 14 years ago

This blog post is not a good quantified self post. A self quantified post should at least details the goal of what he's trying to accomplish, what intervention he's taking, and if he achieves his goal in the end. Otherwise, the information is just a curiosity.

Even my incomplete self-quantified post at http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts#self-quantif... contains information about the intervention I am taking(walking 10K steps) and my goal(achieving a BMI of 24.9 or weight of 159 pounds).

karli6• 14 years ago

Do you always need to have a goal to qualify for a "good" quantified self posting? I dont think so! Maybe it is interesting for me to see what pages i surf, how long i read stuff, etc. Maybe i love to get statistics about myself? Maybe it will help me in the future? So please, dont use this as the only measurement!

ZoFreX• 14 years ago

Hi - I noticed English isn't your first language, and just a minor style note, it's typical to capitalise "I" wherever it appears in the sentence.

skinnymuch2• 14 years ago

Yeah haha. With my recent interest in logging my own life I'm sometimes asked why or what the end goal is. Really there isn't any definitive one except to learn and self improve in any way possible.

icebraining• 14 years ago

No numbers on the HN stories read, comments posted, etc? Lame ;)

karli6• 14 years ago

hehe, the next time, i promise!

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