Project to turn my feature phone into a personal health tracker. Used to track progress toward general wellness goals, including but not limited to: Fruit, veggie, and water consumption, exercise, connection with family, and overall wellness. Currently just a couple scripts that update a history table, but it has aspirations of package status.
I was originally tracking these things with pencil and paper, but I ran into a few problems, like losing track of the papers or not being able to easily analyze the data over time. In order to solve these problems, I wanted to design a process that:
- Was SMS based. I almost always have my phone with me, so I can record things in real time. It's also not a smart phone, so I couldn't just get some app.
- Tracked results over time so I could see how I was doing on my goals.
I knew that I could send SMS to a Gmail account, so I set up a dedicated account for wellness tracking. I start by texting my Gmail account some information about wellness, such as "Went climbing for 35 minutes." Then I pull down all those messages using gmailr, map them to columns in my wellness table (ex_climb), and extract the value included.
- Create more expansive analysis
- Turn into a package
- Which functions to expose?
- How to add new columns?
- Will require knowledge of regex for users
- Maybe mix in GAB's RegExplain
- How much of the data storage and authentications should be handled automatically?