Reading Samuel Pepys' diary got me thinking about recording your own life. One of the ideas this happened to bring to mind is that I'd love to be able to record a diary with additional rich metadata. This could be interesting for a variety of reasons, from practicality to curiosity or perhaps even artistry.
For example;
- I don't have a car but travel a lot. I'd like to record all the journeys I take (TBH this is mostly automatable by parsing my Google calendar) and see if/how much I save compared to driving.
- I usually use shampoo once every few weeks; I think the last time was in November but can't remember. Would be curious to see the trend over time.
- Would like to see how much sleep I get over time (also likely automatable via other methods) and correlate with other behaviours e.g. how much alcohol I drink, how much sex I have, how often I call my mum, whether I keep up with bicycle maintenance chores.
Does anyone do something like this? What tools do you use? I wonder if it could be made frictionless enough that it's easy to stick to?
