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Exist Blog
Company blog · exist.io/blog · on HN as joshsharpproductivitydata
Exist Blog is the company blog at exist.io, writing about productivity and data. Since 2013, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Show HN: Exist – understand your life through data”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention exist.io, a service that pulls fitness, health and app data into one dashboard for habit and life tracking. The comments recommend the app itself, not the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
By combining data from services you already use, we can help you understand what makes you more happy, productive, and active.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Exist – understand your life through data9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2014-10-06
- Exist8 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2014-03-06
- Going analogue to get organised in 20162 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-16
What Hacker News says?
Still working on https://exist.io , a platform for quantifying and tracking data about your life. We've been around for about a decade now and seen many competitors come and go — this niche is definitely not at the peak of the hype cycle any more. On the other hand, Apple Watches have normalised tracking body stats like activity (and sleep to a degree), and yet we think there's still so much more that can be done wi…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?”Submitted Exist as a story · 235 points
HN discussionIf you want to do something similar without hosting it yourself, you can try my thing https://exist.io . It has a full API in addition to a bunch of integrations.
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on “I put my whole life into a single database”Submitted The way we run Exist as a story · 54 points
HN discussionMoves is so clean and simple. Gyroscope is too much glorification. There is much cleaner https://exist.io
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on “Downloaded my Facebook data and it has the call history with my partner’s mother”Submitted A peek inside Exist, our quantifed self app close to launch as a story · 54 points
HN discussionI've recently began to take life tracking semi-seriously and mostly use "off the shelf" tools. A good all-around dashboard is https://exist.io/ , capable of pulling data from multiple sources like RescueTime and various health-monitoring applications that come with smart watches.
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on “Ten Years of Logging My Life”Submitted Show HN: My personal analytics service Exist now lets you track any custom value as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI've been focusing on building new habits for the past couple of years and have written about it a lot. Here are some of the things that have made the biggest difference for me: - Start small. Focus on making the behaviour automatic (the definition of a habit) in its smallest form. It's easier to increase the time and effort spent once doing the behaviour is automatic. - Schedule the habit. My habits almost always f…
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on “Ask HN: Are there any systematic and scientific ways to develop a habit?”Submitted Show HN: Exist – understand your life through data as a story · 12 points
HN discussionDISCLAIMER: I don't mean to promote an application This application reminds me about a mobile application that is similar with this. An application that called "Exist" [1]. Exist tracks everything in one place. It tracks your fitness data and other services connected with yours. [1]: https://exist.io/
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on “April Zero v3”Submitted Making open data a priority as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI think it's really interesting to see the divide between visualisations and "actionable insights" in the discussion here. I'm definitely more about the latter, which has been my focus when building Exist[1] — which you could say is an uglier AprilZero/Gyroscope. AprilZero looks like a magical movie interface (and I feel like Anand has said he was inspired by this sort of thing before). In contrast it's definitely o…
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on “April Zero v3”Submitted Show HN: Track anything with Exist (custom tags update) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt's not a huge sample set to draw from but the average amount of sleep across all of our Exist[1] users is 6:56 (as tracked by a device like a Fitbit, Jawbone UP, etc). So not quite as bad as in the article, but not quite enough either. [1]: https://exist.io
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on “Insufficient Sleep Is a Public Health Epidemic”Submitted Ramifications of the Quantified Self as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI created an email course (also available in book form) about this exact thing! [0] But a few things I've found really useful are: The Momentum app, which lets you quickly check off habits in the iOS notification centre widget. [1] Starting small until the behaviour of a habit is ingrained, then increasing the time and effort. Eg. start with a 15 minute run until you're used to running 3x/week, then increase your ti…
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on “Ask HN: How do you create productive habits?”Submitted Finding insights in your Todoist data with Exist as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://exist.io is attempting to solve this problem (no interests, just a happy user).
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on “Breakup, as captured by my fitbit”Submitted Going analogue to get organised in 2016 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is exactly the problem we're trying to solve with http://exist.io . For the moment we're starting small and just trying to pull in activity tracker data (Fitbit, Jawbone, Withings etc) and some secondary services that provide useful quantifiable data - things like Foursquare checkins, Gmail, task management tools, productivity trackers, etc. It's hard to interface with every service when you're writing custom A…
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on “Startup Idea: Solve Personal Analytics”Submitted Exist – combine your data to better understand your life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs someone who has been on and off the Degoogle train (I ran full LineageOS without Google Play at one point) and is now pretty deep in iOS territory, I'd say the main thing for me has been email. I've used https://www.fastmail.com for a great deal of years now, which is also home to my calendar as well so there's nothing much of value tied to my Google account. YouTube subscriptions would be annoying to lose but I…
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on “Apple courier may have stolen 2 MacBooks, ... Apple is not going to help”Submitted Real life Pomodoro as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCan't measure up to Exist [1]! [1] https://exist.io/
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on “Google Fit: An effortless, comprehensive view of your fitness”Submitted Quantified Self App Exist.io Crowdfunds Beta Access as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHello, I'm the author of this article, and just wanted to add something here: for anyone who finds the Bullet Journal method overwhelming, there's another system called Strikethru that might appeal more. It's still based on pen and paper, but is designed to be a bit less complex and doesn't use an index at all. Here's the official Strikethru site: http://striketh.ru/#welcome And here are a couple of blog posts I've…
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on “Bullet journal: A simple productivity system that just uses pen and paper”Submitted What the Quantified Self needs now is context as a story · 1 points
HN discussionExist[0] is as close as I can think for this type of thing. [0] https://exist.io
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on “Ask HN: Personal Dashboard?”https://exist.io is making a good start (not affiliated, just a happy user).
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on “Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?”