Lifelogging

Lifelogging is the process of tracking personal data generated by our own behavioral activities. While Lifestreaming primarily tracks the activity of content we create and discover, Lifelogging tracks personal behavior data like exercising, sleeping, and eating. This may sound a bit confusing but hopefully the distinction between the two makes sense. You can read more about this on my post here.

I created this page to track some of the devices, apps, and web services that are being created to allow us to Lifelog. You can also view an archive of all my posts on Lifelogging here. For a comprehensive list of Lifelogging apps, devices and services visit the official Quantified Self guide to self tracking.

Websites / Conferences

• Open You – Provides news and resources about open source app for health devices
• Personal Data Ecosystem – A consortium for the ethical integration point for data from different sources
• Quantified Self – A community of users collectively sharing and learning more about self-tracking / Lifelogging. Having their first conference in May 2011
• Strata Conference – Not specific to Lifelogging but a conference about data that can crossover in several areas

Devices

• BodyMedia FIT – Armband to track physical activity and sleep patterns. Tracking is done by iPhone or Android apps as well as a web service. [my review]
• Fitbit – Tracks fitness and sleep activity data
• Green Goose – Wireless sensors that can be attached to other items to measure activity
• iHealth – Blood pressure monitoring system for iOS devices
• Looxcie – Small behind the ear wearable camera to passively record in first person
• Med Gadget – Personal Activity Monitor to Interface with Sprint Phones
• Nike + – A device and iPhone app that tracks exercise activity
• Vicon Revue – Passive camera that takes snapshots based on Microsoft SenseCam pioneered by Gordon Bell
• WakeMate – Records sleep activity data
• Withings – Wifi body scale & blood pressure monitor. Tracks data and has iOS & Android apps
• Zeo – Tracks sleep activity data

Apps

• Eventflow – A digital life recorder (Android)
• Everyday - Take a photo of yourself every day and publish to other sites and create a personal slideshow.
• Daytum – Manually record and organize any type of daily activities
• Lifelapse – Wearable pouch around the neck and app to passively use your iPhone to record video
• Mealsnap - Take a photo of the meal you eat, and then get an estimate of how many calories your meal was.
• Momento – An app that will aggregate data across multiple services into a calendar view and let you manually record your own diary as well
• Rseven – Records all mobile activity (sms, mms, calls, photos, video, etc.) to a calendar display
• RunKeeper – Tracks running activity data
• Sleep Cycle – Tracks sleep activity data

Web Services

• RescueTime – Passively tracks computer usage activity
• Slife – Similar to RescueTime by tracking computer usage activity
• Sing.ly – Hosted version of the Locker Project