In order to fulfill my personal stat keeping, as a Quantitative Self aficionado, I use a collection of apps to do the heavy lifting.

Exist and Dayone: I’ve already shared these and talked about them. They are great.

Insight Timer: This is my meditation app. I don’t pay for it, but there are paid tiers. What I love about it is the way they gamify keeping daily streaks alive. The free version also enables users to modify the details of their sessions very easily. Of course, they also have tons of guided meditations, virtual retreats, and a variety of teachings (Buddhist and otherwise).

Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen: Dr. Greger has written a few books that have been very popular, like How Not to Die. He has a free app that allows you to track your daily consumption of what he says are the key ingredients to a healthy (plant based) diet. There are 12 food categories and 1 supplement he recommends (B 12). I love tracking my diet with this easy to use app.

Oura Ring: Oura rings are pretty popular. Not much to say other than it does a great job of tracking sleep and recently it has been updated to allow for food tracking as well (just take a picture). Worth the money if you need any nudge you can get to stay healthy and like swimming in data.

Apple’s Fitness and Health apps: If you have an Apple Watch, I think you’d be silly not to look at the data you have access to. Otherwise, just wear a regular watch, right?

MapMyRun: This app was once owned by UnderArmor but they apparently sold it to the people who publish Outside magazine. App works the same and does a great job of tracking my (too infrequent) runs.

Google Workspace: I keep my QS stats in a Google Sheet and keep things like my daily gratitude list (3 things every day!) in a Google Doc.

Notion: Everything but my calendar is in Notion. I use it as my task manager and I keep all the other digital flotsam I want to keep a hold of.

I used to wear and use a Fitbit and when it worked, it was great. But it didn’t always work and it got worse once it was bought by Google. I am not using it anymore.