Thyself.io
Productivity
personal journaling and tracking
SHOW HN2013
45points
25comments
#563of 1,739 in 2013
Top 33%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 2 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Natural language processing for tracking verbs and diary entries
From 2 comments
This is pretty impressive in that it uses NLP to allow you to track most (any?) verb. Any chance in making it open source?
skram on HNThis is executed very well. I love the natural language processing for diary entries. However I think you need to change your pitch if you want more incoming traffic. At the…
janekk on HN
Well executed
From 1 comment
This is executed very well. I love the natural language processing for diary entries. However I think you need to change your pitch if you want more incoming traffic. At the…
janekk on HN
Objections
Cloud storage of highly personal data raises privacy concerns
From 2 comments
I really like the idea of tracking myself (e.g. books read, weight, steps taken etc.), but as a hacker I'd never let anyone else hold this data. I mean, Facebook is one thing,…
iM8t on HNStill, and I don't mean to bash your work, I think this is a disservice to the internet because it perpetuates cloud tools and keeps the state-of-the-art even for something as…
goldfeld on HN
Pitch feels creepy or vain
From 1 comment
This is executed very well. I love the natural language processing for diary entries. However I think you need to change your pitch if you want more incoming traffic. At the…
janekk on HN
Unclear what to do on the page
From 1 comment
I'm confused by this, because there doesn't seem to be a clear "do this, to achieve this" message anywhere on the page.
morganwilde on HN
Requests
Open source the project or release the Go NLP library
From 5 comments
This is pretty impressive in that it uses NLP to allow you to track most (any?) verb. Any chance in making it open source?
skram on HNSure! I can release it as a library if there's interest. It's basically a go-client querying a redis instance which has been pre-fed with the NLTK categorization for most common…
feniv on HNI for one am massively interested in Go NLP, and this project as a whole. I'd really love to see this project opened up.
EFruit on HNI would be extremely interested on seeing both the GO client and the redis instance
allanmacgregor on HNPlease do!
dionidium on HN
Option to self-host
From 2 comments
So do I, but mostly because i'd like to deploy it on my own private server. I'm a bit paranoid when it comes to my data.
ragekit_ on HNFor privacy concerns you could store the keys (i.e. sleep, running) locally with identifiers to retrieve the values (i.e. hours, kilos) from your database and display/handle them…
pearjuice on HN
Questions
How to track programming-related or non-numeric goals
From 2 comments
How do you track things you're interested in Excel? For instance, if you're into python, would you make a python worksheet and fill it with goals and things to read?
Iterated on HNI think what he means is that he tracks metrics that he wants to track (such as steps walked, miles run, water consumed, calories consumed, blood pressure, lines of code, dollars…
skram on HN
How to get started and what the workflow is
From 2 comments
I'm confused by this, because there doesn't seem to be a clear "do this, to achieve this" message anywhere on the page.
morganwilde on HNThis is very interesting looking but I don't really grok it. Do you have more complete documentation or commentary anywhere?
crux on HN
Alternatives named
Excel spreadsheets
From 1 comment
I really like the idea of tracking myself (e.g. books read, weight, steps taken etc.), but as a hacker I'd never let anyone else hold this data. I mean, Facebook is one thing,…
iM8t on HN
TrueCrypt encrypted folders
From 1 comment
I totally understand. I'm the kind of person who keeps a diary inside an encrypted true-crypt folder, so security and privacy have been my primary concern from day one. The main…
feniv on HN
rcrd.org
From 1 comment
That's crazy, I've been developing something very similar for personal use: http://rcrd.org/
magicarp on HN
Open source quantified self tools
From 1 comment
@iM8t - list of open source quantified self tools at http://quantifiedself.com/guide/search.php?keywords=open+source You might also ask the people I @-mentioned in…
skram on HN