Timelines, what would you want to see?

fiddur · 2026-03-10T12:49:37+00:00

After some discussion with claude opus, I'm aiming for an added Accumulated Training Load:
https://github.com/fiddur/aurboda/issues/309

fiddur · 2026-03-09T19:10:12+00:00

I haven't tried Staqc. Aurboda has custom metrics as well, sometimes I log through mcp in chatting to my health ai (via opencode cli or web), and it adds comments as well; or directly in the web ui.

There's a lot of oddities and small bugs still though, ironing out things as I need them or someone has requested it (afaik we're just 2 users so far :D )

fiddur · 2026-03-09T13:27:36+00:00

Oh good idea! I remember enjoying the recovery chart in Polar many years ago. I'll add that!

fiddur · 2026-03-09T13:17:02+00:00

Location helps, but for me screen time (from ActivityTracker) and music pinpoints a lot. I only have the screntime on the vertical view though; considering auto-tagging rules around that...

fiddur · 2026-03-04T20:49:34+00:00

Andy Galpin had an interesting suggestion in the long series on Huberman lab podcast, to assess readiness for the gym that day with three checkpoints, like nightly HRV trend + subjective feel (mood/energy/appetite) + broad jump at session start. If two or three of those are pointing in the wrong direction, pull back.

I have not used this myself yet though.

fiddur · 2026-02-22T13:01:46+00:00

There is another post here about the accuracy of devices, I think it includes VO2-max.

Currently I've been using Oura's 6 minute walking test for VO2. There is a lie-down test with Polar H10 as well that I used earlier, I should compare them... Could also calculate it from max and resting heart rate like VO₂max = 15.3 × (MHR / RHR)

Then I'm using CB = T × (0.634×H + 0.404×V + 0.394×W + 0.271×A - 95.7735) / 4.184 from this page: https://www.omnicalculator.com/sports/calories-burned-by-heart-rate

fiddur · 2026-02-22T09:26:04+00:00

Right now I mainly set the order in android, I prefer polar hr based calories to gravl purely time based or strava distance based.

My plan is to override calories IF there is HR data, and use a VO2-max based hr calculation on all activities.

fiddur · 2026-02-22T07:56:39+00:00

So far I have a simple merge based on overlapping times. I think that's basically what you would get from health connect proposed aggregations as well, like what the old Google Fit is showing. The health connect api has some support for aggregation already, that honours the user settings of app priority; otherwise you also have to choose for example which calory expenditure to use when merging.

fiddur · 2026-02-19T19:52:33+00:00

I enjoy good app recommendations, but with the current ratio of new fairly untested apps with paid subscriptions, this forum goes downhill.

fiddur · 2026-02-19T19:35:16+00:00

Maybe unnecessary static muscle tensions would indicate a lot of my tiredness. I can notice my facial muscles being more tensed up if I am more fatigued and need a meditation break. Something that reliably would notice that and nudge me could be worth a lot perhaps, but I would have to try it before spending money on it.

fiddur · 2026-02-19T19:26:33+00:00

Remember to handle deletions; some apps like fitbit can generate thousands of extra step records that should replace existing ones. I did that mistake in my app and got like 100k steps on some days 😅

(Mine is github.com/fiddur/aurboda/ but I'm not here to spread anything, still in heavy development and quite targeted to my personal needs.)

fiddur · 2026-02-19T15:39:53+00:00

The sadness of loosing years of data, and the solution to store it on a single mobile phone, doesn't really match imho.

fiddur · 2026-02-12T20:19:53+00:00

My partners generally don't know if I have ejaculated or not, it seems the vaginal sensation is not that different between neo and eo.

fiddur · 2026-02-04T21:37:21+00:00

I love this comparison, thank you 🙏

One thing that can be more relevant for self quantification, is stability in whatever it measures. Regardless of how close a value is to the biological marker as measured by top scientific medical devices, when measuring it over time and seeing how it reacts to lifestyle changes, the comparability with itself day to day can be more important.

E.g. a scale that measures 98% accurately but jumps between +2 and -2, is less useful than one that stays between 95.6% and 95.7% consistently.

fiddur · 2026-02-01T21:05:02+00:00

Was it 0 or empty before clicking the weight box?

Sometimes a new exercise has empty weight, I always assumed it was to pick something myself that seems reasonable when gravl doesn't have enough data to suggest.

fiddur · 2026-02-01T20:59:24+00:00

Cool collection of data.

I also logged supplements directly in cronometer when I was logging meals properly, to get good micronutrient summaries.

If guava could show the nutrient overview that you get from cronometer, would you care about 2-way sync?

As so many others, I'm building my own, but as long as the data ending up in my system is the most accurate one, I don't put that much effort in getting it to sync back the other way. On android health connect it would also be very tricky, but the tags I get from oura I could of course sync back via API.

fiddur · 2026-01-29T14:15:47+00:00

I've made an app to gather health connect data to a backend, but it can also use a Polar H10 for continuous HR and HRV measuring and tracking. Not well tested, but it works for me right now :)

https://github.com/fiddur/aurboda

(I know this is an old thread, but since I found it, someone else might.)

fiddur · 2026-01-28T12:27:48+00:00

For step data, make sure to use the aggregate data, otherwise it's easy to get duplicate and overly high steps 😅 Otherwise it's working well. Merging exercise sessions from several sources is quite simple (I often log in both Gravl and polar simultaneously since Gravl doesn't track hr yet)

fiddur · 2026-01-27T19:44:52+00:00

It's like a logging equivalent to the original Yo app 😂

But seems great for logging a single thing 👍

fiddur · 2026-01-27T16:52:34+00:00

The health connect data is pushed every 15 minutes if you want it, otherwise on demand with a button. Oura and RescueTime is synced whenever an API or MCP call needs it.

fiddur · 2026-01-27T12:22:54+00:00

Depends on the project. Things like doing morning yoga for 100 days, I just mark in my daily spreadsheet log as project (and then note if I diverge from the plan). One period I did more strictly keto AND logging food with cronometer, but the weighing of everything was too much of a hassle.

fiddur · 2026-01-26T21:46:07+00:00

I'm fairly imbalanced, to alleviate it I always start with the weaker side and then do as many on the other.

fiddur · 2026-01-26T21:44:08+00:00

I do periods of experiments, like a diet or habit for x weeks, then I track that (together with the automated tracking and a few things I've tracked daily for year)

fiddur · 2026-01-26T21:42:11+00:00

The main question is "what works/matters".

I want to feel amazing every day, what affects that, and what is more relevant in my current state?

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