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--- user:pasky:personal-analytics [2013/08/10 01:55] – created pasky
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+===== Personal Analytics =====
+Primary goal: Gather data to provide feedback (and immediate bad conscience) regarding time management - both to decrease slack permeating and diluting (or just postponing) worktime, and to allow for focused time for intense relaxation.
+Comparatively low priority for now: Health/exercise/mood tracking. (Too many solutions focus on this.)
+Constraints: Linux, ideally open source + no cloud. Possibly Android, but I hate using my phone.
+==== Acquisition ====
+=== Software Tools ===
+  * email analytics: https://github.com/mihaip/mail-trends
+    * tried out; updated wiki + pushed out fork handling charset problems properly
+    * some nice plots, but ultimately nothing much useful in them
+  * sleep tracking: using Sleep as Android (questionable usefulness; mine+correlate existing data?)
+    * TODO: extract data (/data/data/com.urbandroid.sleep https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/developer-api)
+  * location logging: TODO collect `iwlist scan` data
+  * logging workstation tty idle times: TODO write own C tool, `w` is too much pain
+  * time tracking: TODO try rescuetime.com
+    * ruza says its blocking functionality is not so useful in practice
+  * time tracking: TODO hamster? - tried it some time ago, problem is, manual text entry is tedious, cannot capture rapid/unexpected activity changes (brief switch to mailbox+irssi... t+5min., oops, not so brief) - needs massive automation, fluid hotkeys for recent activities AND activity reminder; also, needs to seamlessly aggregate over multiple systems (not all of them with GNOME3, too); its datastore may be suitable backend for other tools?
+  * possible key for automation: http://arbtt.nomeata.de/ (thx 2 jenda)
+    * set up, sample rate 5s
+    * TODO make use of the data
+    * TODO go to tab level in konsole?
+  * Android phone data: TODO call information, app_running+unlocked time data, alarm set + alarm silenced times
+  * TODO logging all keystrokes? rather controversial ;)
+    * log only histograms over 5 minute intervals or some such
+=== Time Tracker Box ===
+Physical device to collect work/slack info with no overhead + automated data acquisition. TODO
+==== Enhancement ====
+  * email: even a simple thing like "show only new mails by default in mutt" has helped a lot!
+  * TODO email: redirect automated daily emails to a different mbox _AND_ batch it all up to a daily digest
+  * TODO visualization + aggregation
+  * TODO try rescuetime.com for autoblocking?
+  * TODO focus enhancement: firefox,irssi rapid theme switch based on activity + OSD countup timer for out-of-focus activity?
+  * TODO focus enhancement: OSD display of current (desired) activity? small OSD focus charm?
+  * TODO gamification: score counting for work activities; multipliers for properly tagged activities
+  * TODO URL accumulator (mainly from IRC): to avoid breaking focus by having to click on an url immediately
+    * https://github.com/evaryont/dotfiles/blob/master/config/irssi/scripts/sb_search.pl
+  * TODO personal dashboard: current stats + outstanding items + substitution for my current `todo` text file (simple appointment planning + project status)