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Time of day tracking

Tracking in Exist is currently limited to once-per-day averages, but it could be such a more powerful tool if you could track these attributes by hour, so you could start figuring out correlations with what activity you were doing that made you happy, what times of day you are most productive, what times of day you are most active, the best times of day to get something done or to take a nap, and more.

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Tagged as New feature

Suggested 13 February 2019 by user Tim

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  • 13 February 2019 Tim suggested this task

  • 13 February 2019 Belle Cooper approved this task

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  • 12 March 2019 Josh Sharp edited this task

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    This would be extremely helpful to me. My moods can fluctuate wildly throughout the day, so this would help me pinpoint my triggers.

    07 August 2019
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    Agreed that this would be very helpful. Right now the grouping by day creates a lot of confounding factors - for example it might correlate fatigue and caffeine usage, and that correlation could be interpreted as implying that caffeine is causing fatigue. That’s a simple example that wouldn’t confuse most people, but if the whole point of the tracking is to find non-obvious relationships, then it’s plausible that similar scenarios could arise with confounding factors that don’t get recognized as such.

    02 July 2020
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    I think this is extremely important to have useful insights. E.g. if I exercise in the morning I get more sleep, if I exercise at night time I get less sleep.

    03 December 2021
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    Where this feature request excels is in data that already exists and just needs to be tapped into. Those with fitness trackers would have time of exercise for example. I have found timing of certain things just as important as the activity itself.

    16 June 2022
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    I would LOVE this feature because my productivity varies a lot depending on various factors in the day.

    But for those who are looking for a way to track mood multiple times per day, you can create multiple separate attributes to track your mood at various times of day

    09 December 2022
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    I would like to be able to track the time of day I do certain things, like take my medications. I think this affects my sleep and also my mood, and I’d like to see the correlations. However I’d need something akin to Japan’s 30 hour clock, where you can specify a time after midnight for something that is linked to the prior day, because I often take my bedtime meds after midnight on weekends, and I don’t want that counted as taking the next day’s meds insanely early!

    09 December 2022
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    Multiple daily entries for custom tags/manual tracking with a time stamp would be extremely useful.

    20 February 2023
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    I would also like this to be a time stamp feature!

    This item might even supplement need to integrate several apps suggested in changelog, including but not limited to: - poop log - medication tracking (apple health new update, previously vitamins from apple health)

    03 March 2023
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    Very much agree and would love this ability for same reason (tracking triggers).

    I’d be interested in knowing how you may be tracking this type of thing via exist.io currently if you are willing to share. :)

    16 September 2023
  • 16 September 2023
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    The ‘30 hour clock’ idea would be amazing!

    16 September 2023
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    I track things to do with dissociation/dissociative disorder in my notes app. I write down a symptom/experience that can occur at any time (and multiple times) of day. When that thing happens, I just add a check mark next to that with time stamp. If it makes sense, I also add things such as 1) intensity rating/scale (1-5), 2) estimated duration of event.

    To enable custom tracking features to allow multiple entries w/time stamp and sub-scales (intensity, duration) and then how they CORRELATE to everything else I am tracking with exist.io would be AMAZING for me.

    16 September 2023
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    while I agree with everything said so far, it would end up being unhelpful if attributes were required to have a timestamp, sometimes I don’t end up remembering to track things until much later but I’d still like to be able to track that they happened that day

    10 January
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    The year in review makes me think something like this already exists. It gives “your average day in 20XX”.

    11 January
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    But what if I experience anger twice in a day? What if I want to know at what time of day I’m more likely to feel down or happy? Etc.

    11 February