QUANTIFIED SELF REPORT 2024
- I read a few more books but less articles and blog posts.
- I walked a lot more and exercised a lot more hours, but I ran only once and hit the gym fewer times.
- I maintained both weight and body composition (except for Christmas and vacation bumps).
- I worked a lot less and completed more personal projects.
- I watch a bit less TV and spend more time traveling.
- I increased my net worth a lot and raised my online income further.
- I spent a lot more time writing and published a lot more essays.
MINDSelf-Mastery. Wisdom. Enlightenment.
💭 Contemplation 💭
- 0 analog journal entries composed
- ? digital journal entries composed (Obsidian)
🧘 Mindfulness 🧘
- 34 sessions (+14) of meditation completed (Calm)
- 6,5 hours (-1,5) of meditation practiced (HealthView)
- 5 min session average for meditation (AppleHealth)
📚️ EDUCATION & KNOWLedge 📚️
- 8.796 pages (+4.917) read across 30 books (+10) (GoodReads)
- 53 articles/blogs/essays (-69) read (Readwise Reader)
- 0 hours (-5) listened across 0 podcasts (-9) (PocketCasts)
- 192 hours (new) spent on Reading/Research/Education (Timing)
- 1 (±0) high-quality online course completed
💡 Personal Knowledge & task Management 💡
- 0 digital notes (-482) created in Evernote (Evernote, not in use anymore)
- 2.233 markdown notes (-1.039) created in Obsidian
- 562 hours (+114) spent in Obsidian, 19% (-1) of my digital time (Timing, new tool as of March 24)
- 3 hours (-84) spent in Evernote, 0% (-4) of my digital time (Timing, new tool new tool as of March 24)
- 4,435 digital highlights (+2072) taken (Readwise)
BODYHeath. Fitness. Mobility. Balance.
🦠 IMMUNE SYSTEM 🦠
6 sick days (±0) needed
🧍 Standing 🧍
- 13 stand hours (+2) per day (Watch, Apple Health)
- 126 (+16) stand minutes per day (Watch, Apple Health)
🏃 Cardio 🏃
- 3.264.380 steps (+872.066) taken (StepsApp)
- 8.919 steps (+2.365) per day on average (StepsApp)
- 82 (-295) walks taken (Watch, Apple Health)
- 1 (-5) runs completed (Tempo)
- 2 km (-7) run (Tempo)
- 0 (-45) elliptical workouts completed
- 29,96 (-2,19) VO2Max average within 28,2-32,3 (Watch, HealthView)
🏋️ Strength Training 🏋️
- 403 hours (+207) of exercise in total (Fitness Stats)
- 67 (-26) strength workouts (HIIT+Functional+Traditional) completed (AppleHealth)
🛌🏻 Sleep & Rejuvenation 🛌🏻
- 8h09h (+30min) asleep on average (HealthView)
- 40-175 bpm heart rate asleep on average (Watch)
％ Body Composition ％
- ±0kg body weight (HealthMate, Withings)
- ±0 BMI points (HealthMate, Withings)
- ±0% body fat (HealthMate, Withings)
- ±0% muscle mass (HealthMate, Withings)
- ±0% body water (HealthMate, Withings)
- ±0% bone mass (HealthMate, Withings)
🖤 Heart 🖤
- 67 bpm resting average (Watch, HealthView)
- 107 bpm (+1) walking average (Watch, HealthView)
- 39 ms HRV average (Watch)
- 33 bpm (+2) cardio recovery (Watch, Apple Health)
🍙 Nutrition 🍙
- ? liters of fluids per day (WaterMinder)
- ? of fluids from pure water (WaterMinder)
- 171mg (-33) caffeine consumed per day (CaffeineApp)
- 0 hours (±0) fasted (Zero)
HANDSInvest in myself > savings. 80% maker schedule.
🎯 Productivity 🎯
- 114? hours (-35) in Flow (Focus@Will)
- 160? focus sessions (-38) completed (Focus@Will)
- 96% Productivity Score (Timing, new)
- 4.179 hours (+.1945) digital time, logged automatically (Timing, new)
- 464 hours spent on BASE work & projects (Timing, new)
- 309 hours spent on MIND work & projects (Timing, new)
- 678 hours spent on BODY work & projects (Timing, new)
- 677 hours spent on SOUL work & projects (Timing, new)
- 1168 hours spent on HANDS work & projects (Timing, new)
- 475 hours spent on SPIRIT work & projects (Timing, new)
- 239 hours spent on VOICE work & projects (Timing, new)
- 32 hours (-10) spent on Email (Timing)
👨🏻💻 Coding 👨🏻💻
- 96 hours (-389) in Xcode, 3% (-19) of my digital time (Timing, new tool)
- 8 hours (-24) in Tower, 0% (-1) of my digital time (Timing, new tool)
- 4 hours (-8) in Terminal applications, 0% (-1) of my digital time (Timing, new tool)
- 0 iOS apps (±0) released (Apple AppStore)
- 4 (+1) books & courses on Software Engineering consumed (Obsidian)
💰️ Finances 💰️
- +61% (+60) change in net worth (YNAB)
- 0% (±0) pay raise
- 1.175€ (+815) earned online (Stripe)
SPIRITDreams. Games. Vagabonding.
🎒 Vagabonding 🎒
- 9 new places (+3) visited: El Nido, Hanoi, Sapa, NihnBihn, Hue, Texel, Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund.
- 1 new country (-1) visited: The Netherlands
- 2 long vacations taken (+1): Philippines/Vietnam/Thailand + The Netherlands
- 4 (-1) foreign countries visited: Thailand, The Philippines, Vietnam, The Netherlands
📺️ Entertainment 📺️
- 73 (-18) movies watched (Trakt.tv)
- 148 (-34) hours of 73 movies watched (Trakt.tv)
- 417 episodes (-39) of TV shows watched (Trakt.tv)
- 548 hours (-109) of 40 TV shows watched (Trakt.tv)
- Most watched movie genres were Thriller, Horror, Action, Science Fiction, and Drama
New Highest Rated Movies:
- Oppenheimer (9 ♡)
- Heretic (8 ♡)
- “Getting Lost” Documentary (8 ♡)
- Alien: Romulus (8 ♡)
- The Substance (8 ♡)
New Highest Rated TV Shows:
- 3 Body Problem (9 ♡)
- Hunter x Hunter (9 ♡)
- From (8 ♡)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (8 ♡)
- Monsters (8 ♡)
- For All Mankind (8 ♡)
- One Piece (8 ♡)
- Most watched TV show genres were Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Action, and Adventure
🧸 New Tools, Toys & Gadgets 🧸
- LARQ Smart Drinking Bottle
VOICEExploration. Experiment. Execution.
🥼 PERSONAL SCIENCE 🥼
- TBD Self-Experiments (0) conducted (Obsidian)
- TBD Challenges (0) completed (Obsidian)
🎨 Life Design 🎨
- 120 hours (+66) spent on reviews & planning sessions (Timing, new tool)
✍️ Content Creation ✍️
- 44 essays (+18) published (Substack)
- 491 hours (+286) of digital time logged for Fractal Productivity (Timing)
- 9 hours (+1) digital time logged for Ubermind
- 4 (+1) mastermind sessions held
👥 Social Following 👥
- 223 Newsletter subscribers (-117) gained (+154 FP, +69 Ubermind)
Tracking Tools mentioned in the reports above
Watch— A smartwatch to measure your steps, heart rate, HRV, VO2max, and more (350+€+)
Calm— A sleep, meditation, and relaxation app for web and iOS (300+€ for lifetime sub)
CaffeineApp — An iOS caffeine tracker that visually shows when you reach sleep readiness. (4.49€ single-purchase)
DayOne— A journal app for iOS and macOS (free)
Dreem 2 — A sleep-tracking headband that measures brain waves (not commercially availalable anymore)
Evernote— An old-school note-taking tool available on all platforms (free)
Focus@Will — Scientifically optimized focus music including a simple productivity tracker (150€ lifetime sub)
Goodreads— A social network for maintaining a reading list and tracking your reading progress (free)
LifeCycle— A location tracking app on iOS to determine where you spend your time (99 cents / year)
Last.fm – A scrobbling service for Spotify to determine (free)
Nike Run Club — A tracking app for cardio workouts by Nike Inc. (free)
Nike Training Club — A tracking app for body workouts at home by Nike Inc. (free)
Obsidian—A markdown based note taking software (free)
Pocket Casts — An iOS podcast player with basic stats about listening time (free)
RescueTime — A service that automatically tracks digital activity e.g. how many hours spend on Email (80€ / year)
Readwise.io — A service that allows to import and review book article highlights. (4,99€ per month)
StepsApp — A visually appealing pedometer (step counter) for iOS (free)
Todoist — A task management app available on all platforms (free)
Tempo— A iOS app for run analyitics (free)
Trakt.tv— A scrobbling service for video platforms like Netflix to calculate stats about your watch history (free)
Withings HealthView — An iOS app that lets you view your Apple Health data in a nicer and more flexible form
Withing tracking devices — Tracking hardware (I am using their scale and bp monitor)
WaterMinder — A fluid tracking app for iOS and macOS with nice UX and iCloud sync (5.49€)
YNAB — A budgeting software to keep your finances controlled (80€ per year)
Zenly — A social location tracking app for discovering the world together with friends (free)
Zero — An iOS fasting app for tracking fasts of any kind (free)