Presented at quantifiedself.com/conference/San-Francisco-2013/
Location, sleep and weight are the three things Aaron has managed to track consistently. Combining these data sources helped him learn new things about himself.
IFTTT Recipe
Below is a link and information about the IFTTT recipe mentioned in the presentation which is how I get my weight data from the Withings scale onto my website.
Create a filter in Gmail to catch and forward this email like the following:
Matches: from:(action@ifttt.com) subject:withings Do this: Skip Inbox, Mark as read, Forward to withings@example.com
Handle the email to withings@example.com on your server, using something like mailgun.com or and parse out all the values with a regular expression such as /([a-z_]+): ([0-9\.%]+)<br>/
Reflect allows you to track everything you would like to track, such as your emotion, medication, weight. Can integrate with Weather app, Apple Health, Oura and Whoop. It reminds me of Quantified Self. You can create formulas to combine different metrics, plots, timers (track at the same time!), and the app also generates insights and reports. Aaron Parecki has been tracking various aspects of this life for years – specifically location, weight, and sleep. The format of the backup file is JSON and it supports iCloud automated backup, which means it is possible to update your stats to the web automatically.