Well, for example. Lets say that I have a goal BMI I want to maintain
If I reach for the Oreos, I can choose to have a flag set with a heuritic I created myself that will tell me:
"Having 5 oreos means you need to reduce other calorie intake by n calories to maintain your BMI"
That data can also be aggregated to give me my macro/micros for everything I've eaten etc... without me having to log it like I do now
Think about it as the ultimate personal assistant and all you need to do to instrument it is attaching a camera and mic to your face. You can decide what your goals are, and this kind of instrumentation will capture the data that you need without you having to actually annotate everything.
Likewise, if we go back to 1995, and tell a tech-fearing farmer that within 20 years he and all his salt-of-the-earth colleagues would soon be voluntarily (and gladly!) carrying in their back pocket (in the form of a cell phone) a small cheap generic device connected 24/7 to global corporate networks, with built-in high def cameras, microphones, location detectors, and data gatherers, and would casually store much of their personal and financial information within them.
They would find that notion preposterous. But now, some short years later, they would give it barely a thought.
I've been thinking about doing this for a while now, cameras all over the house hooked up to ML algorithms that help you audit and tweak your behavior towards some specified goal.
When I used to play video games ultra competitively, I would analyze recordings of my gameplay to try and get better, and it worked wonders.
I've honestly thought about recording my work sessions to do the same thing. RescueTime works _somewhat_ to track when I get distracted on something, but moreso I'm interested in identifying when I do something suboptimally and playing it back to identify why I went with that path and try to course-correct the next time around.
Recording the desktop 24/7 and making those videos searchable could be an incredible tool as well. Text on screen as well as audio from meetings. If you didn't document how you initially configured something, you could just go back and watch what you did.
Edit: Another comment has informed me of rewind.ai, which does this on Mac, interesting!
I think the oreo thing is probably doable now with things like habitaware. It’s most likely a very easily distinguishable motor pattern. Not sure they could be programmed to give you an oreo-specific-reminder, but that’s a design gap more than it is a technological one.
If I reach for the Oreos, I can choose to have a flag set with a heuritic I created myself that will tell me:
"Having 5 oreos means you need to reduce other calorie intake by n calories to maintain your BMI"
That data can also be aggregated to give me my macro/micros for everything I've eaten etc... without me having to log it like I do now
Think about it as the ultimate personal assistant and all you need to do to instrument it is attaching a camera and mic to your face. You can decide what your goals are, and this kind of instrumentation will capture the data that you need without you having to actually annotate everything.
Your personal life API