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The Quantified Self Labs: Self Knowledge Through Numbers is a California-based company founded by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly that serves the Quantified Self user community worldwide by producing international meetings, conferences and expositions, community forums, web content and services, and a guide to self-tracking tools. Their aim is to help people get meaning out of their personal data.

  • Tracking sleep with your phone
  • Fitbit: Fitbit is a small device to track your physical activity or sleep. You can wear the device all day because it easily clips in your pocket, pants, shirt, or to your wrist when you are sleeping. The data collected is automatically synched online when the device is near the base station. After uploading, you can explore visualizations of your physical activity and sleep quality on the web site. You can also view your data using their new mobile web site. You can also track what you eat, other exercises that you do, and your weight.
  • Moves: Moves is a passive activity and location tracking tool available for the iPhone and Android.
  • Withings Smart Body Analyzer:The Smart Body Analyzer measures weight, body composition, heart rate and air quality.
  • MoodPanda: MoodPanda.com is a mood tracking website and iphone app. Tracking is very simple: you rate your happiness on a 0-10 scale, and optionally add a brief twitter-like comment on what’s influencing your mood.
  • Momento: Momento is an iPhone journal writing app. It allows you to make entries using text or photos and allows you to tag them with people from your address book, and locations from the GPS as well as category tags. In addition to what you capture on the phone itself, the app can automatically include events from web services, including twitter, facebook, flickr, and others. Any web service that provides an RSS or ATOM feed can be included. The app also has export and backup features.
  • Daytum: “Helps you collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data”. Organized and simple to use, – you can track anything. Also as an iPhone app
  • RescueTime: RescueTime is an web-based automated time tracking and management tool. Install the RescueTime software and track your use of time usage (e.g., applications opened, web sites visited, and documents used). You can pause tracking and selectively delete sensitive data. The web site also has reports and analytics of your data. RescueTime can show you a wide variety of reports from its dashboard. You can see the top apps and sites for the week, how your email ebbs and flows throughout the day, and which days are productive.
  • 42Goals: 42Goals is a flexible goal tracking web app which allows users to track, chart, annotate and evaluate many different goals in one place. Goals can be tracked by numeric, counter, Boolean, manually entered time or premium stopwatch counters. Users can evaluate goals using different mathematical functions such as summation, average, maximum or minimum values. The tool has a free demo mode and a premium monthly subscription option which opens up upgraded features.
  • GoalBuddy: Goal-Buddy is an online goal tracker and task manager. Users have the following tools: Goal Tracker, Habit Builder, Task Manager, and List Organizer. Users will name their goal (or habit or task), categorize and describe it, then outline action steps and dates to achieve to desired goal. They can let others see their goals and schedule email or SMS reminders. Completed goals earn users points that can be redeemed for real-world items like books on tape or CD.
  • LockerProject: An open source development effort to help self-trackers. A Locker gives people ownership over their personal data and clear control over how it’s protected and shared. Providing flexible APIs for access to that data, Lockers are a powerful way for developers to build applications that leverage rich personal data.
  • iDoneThis: iDoneThis is a simple email-based daily productivity tracking web application. Free and easy to use it offers users the ability to reflect on their daily accomplishment by simply replying to an email. Users can also view their daily accomplishments and export their files via the web. Use it to track what you get done and motivate yourself for the future.
  • Give Me My Data: Give Me My Data is a Facebook application that helps users export their data out of Facebook for reuse in visualizations, archives, or any possible method of digital storytelling. Data can be exported in common formats like CSV, XML, and JSON as well as customized network graph formats.
  • Zeo Personal Sleep Coach: A wireless headband, bedside display, set of online analytical tools, and an email-based personalized sleep coaching program
  • RunKeeper: RunKeeper is a mobile application available on iPhone and Android to track your runs: distance, duration, speed, and calories consumed. The mobile application uses GPS to measure your distance. It also has several features to motivate you to run:
    1. you can preset exercise intervals and distances;
    2. it allows you to listen to music while running;
    3. a voice informs you about the progress of your run;
    4. 4) it stores a history of your runs.
    The mobile interface shows you a list of your runs, while the web site has Fitness Reports with visualizations of your runs.
  • Digifit: The Digifit ecosystem is a full suite of Apple apps that records heart rate, pace, speed, cadence, and power of your running, cycling and other athletic endeavors. Data can be uploaded to the well established training sites Training Peaks and New Leaf. The ecosystem is is split up into the Digifit™, iCardio™, iRunner™, iBiker™, iSpinner™ and iPower™ apps. To utilize the full functionality of the app you must purchase the Digifit Connect ANT+ dongle and and the purchase of an advanced functionality App.

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