I’ve been using the Reporter app for three weeks to keep track of my life’s data: sleep, coffee, food, etc.
It quizzes me at random throughout the day with a log of questions that might mean something when it accrues enough information, but for not, it’s not enough to mean anything.
But for now, here’s a sample of what I know about myself based on my answers:
- I feel okay 53 percent of the time and only 28 percent of my life feels excellent. There’s also that 17 percent statistic that suggests I feel mediocre. Of course, that doesn’t add up to 100. The rest of the time, which is hardly ever, I’m having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
- I am busy 25 percent of the time. Please note that the app urges me to answer questions outside the realm of 9 to 5 PM. As much as I’d like to call Civilization V “busy,” it’s not.
- There are those that believe I wear dresses a lot. Not true. I wear pants 47 percent of the time and pajamas 33 percent of the time.
- I’m tired 39 percent of the time. I’d like to correlate this with my coffee statistic, but I keep forgeting to turn the app off at night when it asks you, “How many cups of coffee did you have today?”
- I am working 35 percent of the time. For those that work an eight hour job, you should only be working 40 out of 168 hours in a week, which is only 23 percent.
- I write a lot of emails, but I also play a lot of Civ V. Let’s be honest. I’m killing time until Fallout 4. I’ll be playing a lot of Civ V.
- I’m home a lot, but if I’m not there, I’m at work. Go figure.
You can export the data into cool things like CSV and JSON, but I’m not that cool at the internet. Maybe this would be a good start? I know some news nerds that would be proud.
I’ll revisit these stats in a month or so and we’ll see how we’re doing.