Quantified Self & PKM

by Peter Peerdeman

peterpeerdeman.nl

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takeaway

getting started with tracking habits and health is easy using frontmatter variables in obsidian dailies

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intro

• Hi, I’m Peter. Explore my Mind Vault at https://notes.peterpeerdeman.nl

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background

• strong interest in “timeseries” and forecasting, using influx, grafana, prophet:
  • parking lot trend recognition
  • clan metrics
  • sleep tracking
  • weightlifting 1rm scores

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found out through Joost Plattel this is called “quantified self”

Quantified self refers both to the cultural phenomenon of self-tracking with technology and to a community of users and makers of self-tracking tools who share an interest in “self-knowledge through numbers”.[

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then PKM happened

• started obsidian daily journaling
• plugin that shows journaling streaks
• could be used for mood
• tracking hey-fever

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setup

• daily template
• frontmatter values in template
• heatmap calendar plugin by Richard Slettevoll
• heatmap dataview javascript rendering

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daily journal frontmatter example

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mood: 7
hooikoorts: 2
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# 2024-03-27 

### Highlights van de dag
- fijne papadag, ondanks weinig slaap
- ...

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dashboard dataview example code

\`\`\`dataviewjs
const hue1 = 13 //red
const hue2 = 132 //green

const calendarData = { 
    intensityScaleStart: 1,
    intensityScaleEnd: 9,
    colors: {
        red2green: [
            `hsl(${hue1}, 100%, 37%)`,     // 1 - darkest red
            `hsl(${hue1}, 100%, 50%)`,     // 2 - 
            `hsl(${hue1}, 100%, 60%)`,     // 3 - 
            `hsl(${hue1}, 100%, 77%)`,     // 4 - lightest red
            `hsl(0, 0%, 80%)`,             // 5 - neutral gray
            `hsl(${hue2*0.7}, 70%, 72%)`,  // 6 - lightest green
            `hsl(${hue2*0.85}, 43%, 56%)`, // 7 - 
            `hsl(${hue2}, 49%, 36%)`,      // 8 - 
            `hsl(${hue2}, 59%, 24%)`,      // 9 - darkest green
        ],
    },
    entries: []
}

for(let page of dv.pages('"daily-notes"').where(p=>p.mood)){ 

    calendarData.entries.push({
        date: page.file.name, 
        intensity: page.mood,
        content: await dv.span(`[](${page.file.name})`), //for hover preview
    })
      
}

dv.span("** 😊 Mood  😥**")
renderHeatmapCalendar(this.container, calendarData)
\`\`\`

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insights

• inputting data is moment of reflection and awareness
• discover interesting relationship between mood and health markers
• pattern recognition, forecasting productivity and expectations of productivity

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