Track your activity, sleep, productivity, social data and more to understand your behaviour. Built by @HelloCodeCo with love and data analysis. ❤️📊
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We're officially bowing out of what used to be Twitter, and won't be using this account any more. We're giving mastodon a try, so if you want to keep up with what we're working on, see you over there! mastodon.social/@hellocodeco
"10,000 steps a day" was always just a marketing gimmick. But new studies show that most people would benefit from getting at least 8,000 every day scientificamerican.com/artic…
New on the Hello Code blog: why we care about building Exist in public, and how Changemap fits into our process hellocode.co/blog/post/chang…
The results of our 2022 user feedback survey are up! hellocode.co/blog/post/exist…
High-level summary: manual tracking is a hit, and our next big focus is to do more cool stuff with your data. Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out the survey!
How to run an experiment on yourself, according to @mold_time: slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/0…
Merry Christmas to you if you're into that kinda thing, and a reminder that we'll be sending out your 2022 In Review email early next year! See you in 2023 🎆
We sent out our 2022 user survey email this week! Have you filled it in yet? Your feedback is super useful in guiding us in what we should focus on in 2023.
The public GitHub repo for our developer docs has been updated to match our new API v2 docs, built on MkDocs. github.com/hellocodeco/exist…
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Shipped my first ever new feature for the @ExistApp web app today! We now have a review tab to match our mobile apps, where you can manually track data. Learned a *lot* while working on this. Very excited to ship it!
ALT Exist web app showing manually-entered data
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A product that I have been loving for a long long time is Exist.
exist.io/
I love how the builders @joshsharp and @BelleBCooper have been building this slowly, and also in public for so many years.
They show their business income and future roadmap in public
Announcing the public release of API 2 to all users! Developers can now take advantage of all our new custom attributes and manual tracking features. We've also created a guide to writing a client, so beginner programmers can jump in too. developer.exist.io
ALT A screenshot of the new docs site showing the page on migrating from API 1.
Turns out, writing a guide on how to use our API is a whole lot of work! I hope it'll be a useful resource for anyone looking to get started with accessing their data programmatically.
ALT Some documentation for the Exist API describing how to get a token.
It's a slow process, but I'm currently working through updating our API documentation for our public release of API v2, which will support manual tracking. We'll also include a guide on how to get started writing your own client! 💪
ALT API docs site for Exist, showing some details about user objects
Here's why we use averages as goals in Exist:
- when your behaviour changes over time, your goal changes to match
- it's more personalised: if you're more active on weekends, your goal will be higher then
- it helps you focus on incremental change
exist.io/blog/averages-vs-go…
Quick tip: when using our new manual tracking feature, we recommend choosing a pre-made template if you can. Because we define these templates, we know about that data and can do better analysis on it. If you need to, you can always create something totally custom, though!
Quick tip for iOS users: when tracking a duration or a time of day, you can tap on this dialog to bring up the keyboard and type in a value instead of scrolling. (Tap on the selected value, where you see the grey background in this screenshot.)
ALT Exist for iOS time of day tracking
ICYMI, our manual tracking update IS LIVE!!! 🎉🎊🥳 You can now create and track any number you can think of with Exist on iOS and Android. Track habits, medications, productivity stats, symptoms,—anything!—to uncover patterns and understand yourself. exist.io/blog/manual-trackin…
ALT Exist for iOS showing manual data entry on a 1-9 scale
Our manual tracking update IS HERE!!! 🎉🎊🥳 You can now create and track any number you can think of with Exist on iOS and Android. Track productivity stats, habits, medications, symptoms—anything!—and see how they affect your behaviour. exist.io/blog/manual-trackin…
ALT iPhone screenshots of the Exist app showing manual entry of a "stress level" value on a 1-9 scale