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modelvillager t1_j2nx0j0 wrote

Why do none of these posts account for the enormous admin time of tracking every minute of your life?

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ObsessiveTimekeeper OP t1_j2o0qb9 wrote

I wouldn't call it an enormous amount of time. It takes me like 5-10 seconds to update it, and I do it while I'm moving. Walking to the car? Tap driving on my phone. Getting up from my desk to go make some food? Click cooking.

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Costpap t1_j2olzjw wrote

How do you make sure that you always remember to tap the correct action? I’ve kinda always wanted to do something like this - maybe tracking every hour instead of every minute - but I’ve always been too afraid that I’d miss out on tracking something. For example, I’ve been wanting to keep track of how much water I drink using Apple Health, but consistently forget to add that I’ve drank 500ml or something. I have seen success in tracking habits in the past, but even then, it’s just an Excel spreadsheet with a cell for every day of the year and then numbers, reflecting the kind of action tracked and the amount of times per day, in the adjacent cells. That’s kinda easier on me, since I can update the spreadsheet from once a day to once every 3 days and still successfully recall everything of the top of my head.

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ObsessiveTimekeeper OP t1_j2otlih wrote

I don't always remember, and in those cases, I have a nice little interface that lets me quickly adjust/splice in log items as I remember them.

But as time goes on it's been more ingrained in my brain (feels like I'm forgetting something when I don't update) so I don't forget too often.

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To your point about tracking water consumption, this is something I actually want to start doing this year (along with sugar and other misc counters). I'm probably going to end up adding a counter feature that lets me quickly click a plus/minus button in regular amounts (16 oz, 20 grams).

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Costpap t1_j2oycnz wrote

I see. That's quite easier to do when you have a website set up in order to do all of the tracking, in comparison to relying on an Excel spreadsheet, which is best updated on a PC. Your set up makes me wonder what I could do to replicate something like this using a VPS and a subdomain on a domain I have, actually.

As for water consumption, I suppose it'd be a lot more rewarding to implement it into your current workflow for entering all of the data. In my case, I could look into using Apple's Shortcuts to let me have a button that I can press to quickly add data to the Health app, especially since I usually drink water in 500ml increments. I could always have the shortcut ask me as well - but then the whole process would become significantly slower.

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Mysticpeaks101 t1_j2o8dfu wrote

I did something similar for around 3 years and it honestly didn't take long at all. It was a minute per day at most.

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