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Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?
Lately I’ve been working toward keeping a logbook of what I’ve been up to throughout the day. I’ve been using things.app to record things as completed tasks, which has the advantage of being available on both computer and phone and seamlessly sync’ed up.
But I’m interested in being able to pull in more automation–for example, download a csv of transactions from my bank and integrate purchases into the log, maybe add in entries for emails sent, phone calls made. The goal is to capture information passively enough that I can add context and commentary when I want to without spending more time on it than it’s worth. I have an idea that it would be helpful for me to be able to look back and get a long term sense of things that I’m doing and interested about.
Do you know of any tools that might make that easier to accomplish? I struggled to find a general purpose app for the iPhone to write new records to a database, and I thought about using a google form but I don’t want to have to manually record the time. I thought about sending emails to a specific address, but I couldn’t come up with a simple way to do the kind of purchase integration that I’d like to do, and I have a hunch that the whole thing is really only going to be useable if it ends up in a database or spreadsheet form.
With all the personal data collection going on right now I think it would be interesting to start trying to use similar tactics to bring more of my attention to the decisions I’m making about how to spend my time and focus.
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