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Micro journaling, migraine tracking, and more: Quantified Self weekly links

Products

First look: Mondaine’s Helvetica fitness tracker has separate day and night modes

During the day, the larger, grey hand will indicate the day of the month, while the smaller, black hand will show progress towards a user-defined step goal. Once you hit the hay, the gray hand switches to the night mode indicator and the black hand keeps track of percentage towards the user’s target for hours slept.

• Disney Parks MagicBand: make your way around Disney’s theme parks with this wristband

Software

Stigma
iOS

Stigma is a journalling app that asks you how you’re feeling up to four times per day and lets you add a note each time. Word clouds show you the most popular feelings you’ve entered and let you drill down into the notes associated with each one.

• Activity and Mood Diary by Ginsberg: track your activity and mood
  iOS, Android, Web
• Migraine Buddy: track migraines
  iOS, Android
• TodaySteps: pedometer app
  iOS

News and articles

How cold, hard data improve lives

“The Quantified Self,” a photo series by London-based Travis Hodges, explores how people monitoring anything from insulin injections to financial records use cold, hard data to live better lives.

• The future of the dumbwatch
• Gyroscope wants to help you track everything about yourself and share it with the world
• Be your own coach: The case against activity trackers and the Quantified Self

Image credits: gizmag, Omit Limitation, BloombergBusiness