Keeping Track

Maybe you’ve heard of the quantified self.  I like data and use a lot of services to keep track of various aspects of my life, so I hope you’re able to get some ideas from this list. If you have any questions, let me know.

Golf

  • Golfshot – scores, stats, and GPS.
  • golfscores.nickmomrik.com – custom site I built for 9 hole stats.
  • I also built and maintain a private site for our golf group. It has handicaps, scoring stats, and a money list.

Health

  • BTWB – CrossFit workouts. Can’t be beat for all of the data it provides.
  • Unleaded Gains – blog (name of my garage gym) where I log every workout for easy searching, categorization, and being able to keep notes about each workout.
  • RunKeeper – running stats.
  • Garmin Connect – also has running stats. My main use is for lap timing and heart rate data.
  • MyFitnessPal – when I want to track macros.
  • Withings – WiFi scale for weight and body fat.
  • Sense – sleep tracker.
  • Apple Health – brings some of these things together.

Travel

  • TripIt (Pro) – flight, lodging, and car rental details.
  • Automatic (Pro) – driving and trip information.
  • Gas Tracker – vehicle gas consumption and mileage. Automatic Pro provides this now, so I need to figure out if I can transfer the data.
  • Swarm – check-ins.

GTD

  • Apple Reminders – to-do lists, alerts, and shopping lists.
  • Bear (Pro) – where I keep ideas, notes, project or workout plans, personal documentation, etc. I also do some to-dos here, especially for lists where I don’t need/want a reminder.
  • Google Calendar – what’s going on? Where do I need to be?
  • Gmail – I actually try not to use email much.
  • Deliveries – tracks shipments.
  • 1Password – I know exactly two passwords, the one to get into my computer and the one to unlock 1Password. Everything else is a long random string of characters I access through 1P apps/extensions. I also use it to manage two-factor authentications.
  • Dropbox – file backup and sync across devices.
  • Feedly – where I read the sites/blogs I don’t want to miss.
  • WordPress.com Reader – posts from sites/blogs I don’t mind missing.

Finance

  • Wealthfront – the best managed investment services I’ve seen anywhere. They’ve been adding support for tracking outside accounts.

Other

  • Untappd – beers!
  • Timehop – neat for looking back at today’s personal history.

Home Automation

A different category worthy of a separate post. I’m still setting up my house and will post details when I have it all working.

Performancing Metrics

Performancing came out with a free public beta of a blog tracking service earlier this week, called Performancing Metrics. I haven’t used it a very much yet, but it looks very promising. Most statistics services and packages are bloated with useless data. PM gives bloggers access to the data they’ll need most often and it works great. The site responds quickly and stats are updated every hour. Best of all…you can track multiple blogs from one account!