Other people have written much more about principled self experimentation, so I will not. Here are some links though.
Obligatory: The tragic morality fable, Seth Roberts’ Final Column: Butter Makes Me Smarter.
Experiment design
- Gwern on blind trials
- White Paper: Design and Implementation of Participant-Led Research in the Quantified Self Community
- Quantified Self How-To: Designing Self-Experiments
I mention some work-monitoring apps under time management.
Subjective things
Measuring moods? See the Experience Sampling Method (Verhagen et al. 2016; Hektner, Schmidt, and Csikszentmihalyi 2007) or Swan (2013).
Bio-markers
See bio-markers.
Tools
- Bearable | Mood & Symptoms Tracker App
- Exist is a hip quantified self tracker.
- Symple symptom journal and health diary
- Cronometer: Track nutrition & count calories
- Gyroscope · Your Personal Health Coach
- ActivityWatch?
- A set of watchers that record relevant information about what you do and what happens on your computer (such as if you are AFK or not, or which window is currently active).
- A way of storing data collected by the watchers.
- A dataformat accomodating most logging needs due to its flexibility.
- An ecosystem of tools to help users extend the software to fit their needs.
Incoming
- N=1: Single-Subject Research – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
- N=1: Introduction – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
- Mark Koester, How to Export, Parse and Explore Your Apple Health Data with Python
- HealthExport - Export health data from your iPhone to CSV
- Simple Health Export CSV on the App Store
- Apple Health XML to CSV Converter - ericwolter.com
- Show & Tell Projects Archive - Quantified Self
- Bibliography - Quantified Self
- woop/awesome-quantified-self: Websites, Resources, Devices, Wearables, Applications, and Platforms for Self Tracking
- Open Humans
- markwk/qs_ledger: Quantified Self Personal Data Aggregator and Data Analysis
- onejgordon/flow-dashboard: A goal, task & habit tracker + personal dashboard to focus on what matters
- Flow
- pacogomez/health-records: Plain text health records
- heedy/heedy: An aggregator for personal metrics, and an extensible analysis engine
- heedy/heedy-notebook-plugin: Use Jupyter notebooks in Heedy
- NeuroEducate, the Book!
References
Chrisinger, Benjamin W. 2020. “The Quantified Self-in-Place: Opportunities and Challenges for Place-Based N-of-1 Datasets.” Frontiers in Computer Science 2.
Daskalova, Nediyana, Karthik Desingh, Jin Young Kim, Lixiang Zhang, Alexandra Papoutsaki, and Jeff Huang. n.d. “A Cohort of Self-Experimenters: Lessons Learned from N=1 Personal Informatics Experiments,” 12.
Dulaud, Paul, Ines Di Loreto, and Denis Mottet. 2020. “Self-Quantification Systems to Support Physical Activity: From Theory to Implementation Principles.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (24): 9350.
Feng, Shan, Matti Mäntymäki, Amandeep Dhir, and Hannu Salmela. 2021. “How Self-Tracking and the Quantified Self Promote Health and Well-Being: Systematic Review.” Journal of Medical Internet Research 23 (9): e25171.
Hektner, Joel M., Jennifer A. Schmidt, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 2007. Experience Sampling Method: Measuring the Quality of Everyday Life. Experience Sampling Method: Measuring the Quality of Everyday Life. Thousand Oaks, CA, US: Sage Publications, Inc.
Heyen, Nils B. 2020. “From Self-Tracking to Self-Expertise: The Production of Self-Related Knowledge by Doing Personal Science.” Public Understanding of Science 29 (2): 124–38.
Pelayo, Verónica Rivera. n.d. “Design and Application of Quantified Self Approaches for Reflective Learning in the Workplace,” 358.
Swan, Melanie. 2013. “The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery.” Big Data 1 (2): 85–99.
Verhagen, Simone J W, Laila Hasmi, Marjan Drukker, J van Os, and Philippe A E G Delespaul. 2016. “Use of the Experience Sampling Method in the Context of Clinical Trials.” Evidence-Based Mental Health 19 (3): 86–89.
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