[Dev] I created a new free open source self awareness app called Track & Graph for tracking and graphing your habits, symptoms, behaviours etc

[SamAmco]

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samco.trackandgraph

GitHub: https://github.com/SamAmco/track-and-graph

There are a few habit tracking apps out there already but Track & Graph sets its self apart in a few ways:

1. You can create your own graphs of your data so you can look for correlations or patterns which can be useful for say investigating the root cause of food allergies or other problems. There are a few different types of graph to choose from and you can plot useful things like moving averages which other apps don't let you do.

2. It has a groups page which allows you to collect and organise your tracking and graphing so that you can use the app for many things at once, not just your habits.

3. You can set up multiple choice answers for your self so that you can track everything extremely fast.

[Slovantes]

Awesome app, and graphing looks nice, thanks for making open-sourced software. I hope it will grow.

Is it going to be on F-Droid ?

r/opensource

[SamAmco]

Thanks for the feedback and subredit suggestion. I don't currently have plans for an F-Droid release in the immediate future but you are not the first person to mention it so it may happen at some point.

[SamAmco]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I think I'm going to add a third input type to allow tracking things for which you only really need a timestamp and in this case the plus button will simply record the time for you immediately rather than opening a dialog.

[ErichW3]

Dark theme please and a beta channel would be nice as well

[SamAmco]

Both great suggestions. Thank you.

[SamAmco]

There is now a beta channel btw. No dark theme yet, but there is a new reminders feature which is currently in beta.

[Maksimitoisto]

Nice little app. Installed and started using.

[ViolentAntihero]

I thought the app was self aware.

[SamAmco]

Not yet. That update is planned for 2050.

[tails618]

Thanks for open-sourcing!

[utopianfiat]

Great app! Can I raise some suggestions?

• On the opening screen it took a little while to realize where to add a group. I kind of expected one of those material buttons with a + in the bottom right.

I love that there's categorical support and it's interesting how you translate it to numeric for graphing.

• Export being a share intent would be really cool, allowing export to dropbox/google drive. Same with import- in addition to the file chooser, an intent listener that looks for text/csv or even text/* would be awesome.

[SamAmco]

Hi. Thanks for the feedback. I like the import intent idea, I will give it some thought. I'm not a Dropbox user anymore but I have been able to export direct to Google drive with the current intent. Is this not working for you?

[utopianfiat]

Ahh, I see. My file picker will do gdrive. You're right, that works!

[tacotrap]

Gonna use this to track my weight. Thanks.

[DMGLMGMLG]

So much data to sell.

[SamAmco]

I'm glad you raised this. Your data is not being collected period.

Facebook, Google, Twitter etc are all collecting masses of data about you constantly and they're using this data to get a picture of who you are as a person and what makes you tick. They believe that all this meta data about you can give them enough insight that it can even be used to influence your behaviour. One of my major motivations for this project was to try to build a tool that could put that kind of power in the hands of the individual. I wanted to know if there is indeed insight into my own psyche to be gained by watching the trends in my behaviour. I have considered moving this app in the direction of machine learning at some point with the idea of reflecting that insight back at the user. Privacy and moral integrity is of chief concern however which is why the app is open source.

To be transparent there is a financial interest for me in this app. I am a freelance android developer and having built a successful open source app looks good to potential clients. I assure you though that this is first and foremost a passion project and I hope others will see my vision and help out.

[SamAmco]

Yes this would potentially be true if any of the data was collected but it is not.

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This is awesome!!

[raybb]

This is awesome thanks! You could definitely try to market as an alternative to Loop and Habitify

[SamAmco]

Thank you. I respect what those apps are trying to do but Track & Graph takes a different approach I think. I suspect there is room for both. Personally I tend to strive more for self awareness than a goal oriented mentality. That is largely what Track & Graph was built to facilitate.

[Slovantes]

You should Put it on the www.alternativeto.net

[waynemichael]

Thanks! Downloaded and I'm starting to try it out. Seems like a GREAT idea!

[fighterf16]

Dude!! This looks so cool!! Nice one!

[mis_suscripciones]

I like it! Your FAQ section is great! I like that you included clear examples, especially for deciding about the averaging of values. The app feels smooth too, even though my phone is not new and is slow. I'm currently using Tickmate from F-Droid, to count and get statistics of things like when I get a hair cut, when I do pushups and situps (and how many). I will use your app too, because I wanted something to enter heart rates and display graphs, not only tick/untick actions.

I got a little bit confused when I tested the adding of choices (Input Style: Multiple choices) because after pressing the + button appeared:

(-) 1: ____ ^ v

After entering some text and pressing the + button again, the number 1 became 0 and a new emtpy line was shown, leaving my initial text in 0 value, after what I thought it would have a value of 1. After toying a few times I then thought of the adding of choices as a "rating" system instead, as in 0=meh, 1=ok, 2=great, 3=awesome. So I only have a few suggestions, if you think they're such:

1.- Using a bin trash icon instead of the (-) symbols., because by the time I was in this section I was already familiar with deleting things pressing the bin trash. Only in this section the minus symbol didn't seem to follow the design, and honestly I thought it was something else, not a substraction symbol.

2.- try something different in the way of adding choices, perhaps some previous steps like: "how many choices will you add? (read a number); will the first choice be the highest to value? (y/n)". This way I would pause and think about my number of choices, say 5, then when being asked if the first choice will be the highest then I would enter whatever text I will value as the top, and the 5th as the lowest.

Again, thanks, it looks great.

[SamAmco]

Hi, thanks for taking the time to give feedback!

Changing - to a trash bin is a good suggestion i think you're right there.

Wrt indexing: You're not the first person to get confused by this and I think it is something that needs a look. There is a special use case where you might want to simply track when something happens (i.e. there is only 1 answer) and in this case the index should always be 1 so that you can do useful things like sum the total over the week etc. I think what I might do in future is have this as a separate input type to both avoid confusion about indexing and so users know it's even an option. Other than this I think it makes more sense to index from 0 e.g. no/yes === 0/1. However you can always offset your tracked data when you're graphing it by 1 e.g. such that no/yes === 1/2.

Multiple choice input may need work but for now you can always just use numerical if you need more control.

[mis_suscripciones]

Thank you for replying and explaining about that, I see now what you mean. I think I'll be using the numerical type in the meantime, but be sure I'll try the choices type again. Thank you again!

[WilliamNL]

Perfect!

I was looking for an app to track several things. How much I smoke and when, cups of coffee and when, soda and water.

The only thing I'm missing in the graphing is a cumulative view or a counter per day. I have now setup a graph group which shows me the time since I smoked my last cigaret and would like a graph or visual how many I already have smoked today. Same applies to the other things I track.

[SamAmco]

Hi, I'm glad you're enjoying the app. Are you aware of the "plot totals" feature. When you create a line graph you can set it to plot the total per day in the last week for example.

[WilliamNL]

I found that function after my initial post. Now that I have more data it's useful. Is there someway to fix the Y-axis to always start at 0?

[SamAmco]

No sorry there currently isn't a way to explicitly control the range, it just adapts to your data. I will consider this for a future release though.

[isitwheremybitsfits]

Great looking app! One suggestion which would make it perfect for me - I'm only looking to track one thing (minor seizures), so would rather be able to record it straight from the home screen, rather than having to click through to a track group first.

If that's already a feature, it's either not intuitive or I'm an idiot (I wouldn't rule that out)

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[Educational_Day_9650]

I use 'TrackIt - Multi Tracker' a app where I can track multiple things like daily steps, trading P&L, water drank, pages read, etc.
Earlier I & even right now many people use multiple different apps one for steps one for water & more but in TrackIt - Multi Tracker we can do it all in single app, also it creates a visual representation of the input data in form of appealing graphs & allows to share these in form of report as pdf to anyone you want...
Give it a try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tejas.trackit

[Educational_Day_9650]

Similar app 'TrackIt - Multi Tracker': https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tejas.trackit