[S]o it seems that what I call “personal analytics” or “quantified self” is also called “life-logging” out in the wild. As regular readers know, I have a kind of fascination with this. I collect quite a bit of data about my life: My activity (how much I walk, how active I am, etc.) My writing…
[I] happen to log into IFTTT yesterday evening to check out my recipes and discovered that Twitter triggers have been reinstated, presumably using Twitter’s new API. This is great news because it means no workarounds are needed to capture Tweets in Evernote. Just create a recipe using the new Twitter trigger and send the results…
[L]ot of people have asked if would make the code for my Google Writing Tracker scripts available. I’ve been saying “eventually” long enough. As of this morning, the core scripts are now available on GitHub. A few comments: These are unsupported scripts. I say this not because I don’t think they will work (I’ve been using…
This is the first1 in a new series of monthly posts I’ll be doing in which I describe how I am trying to automate all of the repetitive tasks in my life, in order to free up time for the creative work. A big reason I can do this type of automation is because I…