Medical self-tracking

About keeping a symptom calendar. I read a post by Olu Online today "do we really need to measure that?" and it reminded me of something I wanted to write about. And I happen to have time to write about it right now. I've discussed my attitude towards self-tracking a few times in my end-of-year media posts and my blog analytics posts, but I don't really consider those self- tracking, more cataloguing. Every time I write up a weekly digest I have to go look at Yamtrack, Letterboxd, and LibraryThing to remember what I did for the past week and what the titles and episode numbers were and so on. That kind of stuff just really doesn't stick in my brain very well. In terms of biological self-tracking, the quantified self, I am largely uninterested in metrics and numbers and babysitting and reminders that smartwatches and similar apps give you. I don't exercise and I know it, I don't need an app to tell me my heart rate is too high all the time, I don't need to know that my untreated sleep…

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