So nice to see & thank you for sharing! If you’re ever interested in picking up habit tracking again, I’ve been through the ringer with apps and settled on Bearable; they have a lot of the more correlative stuff you were looking for (i.e. you can set up unlimited inputs & outcomes and it will correlate between them in a simple way).
But, also, I’ve been using habit/factor trackers for years and I’ve never gotten anything useful out of their analysis tools because there are too many confounders. I mostly find them useful as a habit that causes me to be more mindful about those things, which is valuable in and of itself. (And also I have chronic pain so can specifically keep an eye on my flare-ups for my rheumatologist).
I use bearable for 3 months at a time to get a picture of what is currently working. You can track effect sizes of supplements in sleep quality for example if you also have a way of tracking your sleep.
Funnily enough, I noticed there were a bunch of 80⁄20 stuff in my day through using bearable. I found doing a cold shower, loving kindness meditation in the morning and getting sunlight in the morning were like a difference of 30% in energy and enjoyment so I now do these religiously and it has worked wonders. (I really like bearable for these sorts of experiments.)
I just did different combinations of the sleep supplements, you still get the confounder effects but it removes some of the cross-correlation. So Glycine 3 days, no magnesium followed by magnesium 3 days, no glycine e.t.c. It’s not necessarily going to give you a high accuracy but you can see if it works or not and a rough effect size
Thanks! I actually also was using bearable for a while there and had a similar experience of “it’s hard to find out info because of confounders but this is generally useful for being mindful of my wellbeing”. I don’t use it any more but might look into it again :)
I remember thinking it was super cool when I found it
So nice to see & thank you for sharing! If you’re ever interested in picking up habit tracking again, I’ve been through the ringer with apps and settled on Bearable; they have a lot of the more correlative stuff you were looking for (i.e. you can set up unlimited inputs & outcomes and it will correlate between them in a simple way).
But, also, I’ve been using habit/factor trackers for years and I’ve never gotten anything useful out of their analysis tools because there are too many confounders. I mostly find them useful as a habit that causes me to be more mindful about those things, which is valuable in and of itself. (And also I have chronic pain so can specifically keep an eye on my flare-ups for my rheumatologist).
I use bearable for 3 months at a time to get a picture of what is currently working. You can track effect sizes of supplements in sleep quality for example if you also have a way of tracking your sleep.
Funnily enough, I noticed there were a bunch of 80⁄20 stuff in my day through using bearable. I found doing a cold shower, loving kindness meditation in the morning and getting sunlight in the morning were like a difference of 30% in energy and enjoyment so I now do these religiously and it has worked wonders. (I really like bearable for these sorts of experiments.)
This is super interesting! How do you do the experiments? Do you change one thing at a time and track?
I just did different combinations of the sleep supplements, you still get the confounder effects but it removes some of the cross-correlation. So Glycine 3 days, no magnesium followed by magnesium 3 days, no glycine e.t.c. It’s not necessarily going to give you a high accuracy but you can see if it works or not and a rough effect size
Thanks! I actually also was using bearable for a while there and had a similar experience of “it’s hard to find out info because of confounders but this is generally useful for being mindful of my wellbeing”. I don’t use it any more but might look into it again :)
I remember thinking it was super cool when I found it