I'm interested in the idea of using Tweets / SMS / Identica or other short-text status update systems to track daily life observation (or ODL). The basic concept is that you send status updates to Twitter or Identi.ca, or perhaps just an SMS message or something else in a format that can later be launched to display templates.
You can use it to track exercises, diets, movie settings, anything you like.
To do this, you need to have a syntax that allows people and computers to easily analyze your status updates. The syntax must be dense, which supports a low number of characters, but is still accessible to humans.
This idea is not new, and there are many twitter apps for tracking exercise and eating habits. Twitter is essentially a short ODL text environment that you can easily see by looking at #feeling http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23feeling
or looking for #hurts http: //search.twitter .com / search? q =% 23hurts or applications designed to extract a wealth of ODL data already collected on twitter: http://www.tweetfeel.com/
Using Twitter to track ODLs, you stop fighting to get people to use this integration mechanism designed just for that, like Google Health and HealthVault, and instead focus on improving the value of the ODL tracking system that people already use, like Facebook or Twitter. But for this, you need a generalized approach for entering ODL and for parsing these records so that you can get the value at a higher or at least different level.
There are also several syntaxes available to generalize the approach to using Twitter to track what you like. These are the ones that interest me the most. So far I know a few:
Daytum has twitter syntax . It uses direct messages and looks like this:
d daytum item : amount
d daytum item [category, category] : amount
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// yfd works with "action" and "value" pairs
d yfd weigh 160
d yfd exercised arms
d yfd watched Back to the Future
// but can be made more complex with units
d yfd drank 2 water
d yfd drank 1 coke
// and timestamps
d yfd played xbox at 20:00
d yfd goodnight at 11:00pm
d yfd goodnight at 11pm
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