# Free your health data from the tracking apps and devices!

> Here you will find out how to use TagSpaces to manage your health data in your file system.

Recently I gave a talk on the quantified self meetup in Munich. In this talk I presented how TagSpaces can be used to manage your health data. Please find here the slides from this talk:

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TagSpaces

Free your health data from the tracking apps and devices!

<small>(or how to use your file system as a database)</small>

<small>by Ilian Sapundshiev @ilianste&nbsp; </small>
<small>Munich QS Meetup at [20140320] </small>

Table of Content

Motivation
Envisioned Solution
What is TagSpaces?
My "Health Data" Workflow
Supported platforms

Motivation

Issues with health / quantified self data:
many apps on many devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops)
many intelligent devices (smart watches, bluetooth scales, wristbands)
many health web portals
all this leads to a segmentation of your data
your data is mostly vendor locked
and you don't really know how your data is used

Envisioned Solution

What I really needed:
Universal hub for health data management
Cross device sync and portable data
Abilities for visualization and analysis
No Backend -&gt;No Login -&gt; No Cloud

What is TagSpaces?

What is TagSpaces ?
Use cases - File Management
Use cases - File Preview
Ok, we were here already ...
Use cases - File Tagging
File System as a Database
Sync Tagged Files Between Devices
Use cases - File Editing / Note-Taking / Evernote
TagSpaces as of v1.7

What is TagSpaces ?

it is open source and extensible platform for personal data management
it let you organize, tag and browse your local files, photos and documents on many platforms.
project initiated in 2013 by me

      official website: tagspaces.org

      source hosted on github.com/uggrock/tagspaces

build with HTML5, JS, Cordova, Node-Webkit

Use cases - File Management

create files (plain text, html, markdown)
create directories
rename files
move files (drag&amp;drop)
delete files

Use cases - File Preview

TagSpaces can open over 50 different file types such as:
Images (PNG, BMP, JPG, GIF), Videos and Audio (MP3, OGG)
Documents (PDF, ODF, ODT, ODS, ODP, MARKDOWN)
Sourcecode (C, Java, C++, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, XML)

Ok, we were here already ...

Use cases - File Tagging

TagSpaces uses the file name for saving the tags
tags are saved after the following schema:
file title [tag1 tag2 tag3].extension
example: img_2343 [USA beach miami].jpg
example: meeting [bmw 20140214 john].html

File System as a Database

No database locking
Findabilty - with the search capabilities of your operating system
Easy to synchronize between devices (just work in a dropbox folder)

Sync Tagged Files Between Devices

Dropbox offers a great way to sync tagged files across multiple devices

Use cases - File Editing / Note-Taking / Evernote

TagSpaces can also edit some text file types
HTML
Markdown
Text Files
Sourcecode (C, Java, C++, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, XML)

TagSpaces as of v1.7

My "Health Data" Workflow

Collecting the data
Organizing the data
Live Demo
Visualizing my weight
Adding new weight data entry
Conclusions

Collecting the data

taking screenshots from your after every measurement
using the export functionality of your device (if available)
e.g. my scale has usb port so I can export all the data in CSV
taking photos of the device (if it shows the result of the measurement)

Organizing the data

Once a week collect all the screenshots / photos
Organize and tag those screenshots in 10 minutes
Convert your CSV to tagged files (easy with scripts)

Live Demo

Visualizing my weight

Feature currently in development

Adding new weight data entry

Feature currently in development

Conclusions

You can experiment with many kind of devices and apps
While letting you stay not vendor locket
Not suitable for measurements happening to often
It is still heavy manual approach
It needs optimizations, eventually OCR for automatic tagging

Supported platforms

      Download it from tagspaces.org/downloads&nbsp;for:
    

Windows
Mac OS
Linux/Ubuntu
Android
Firefox
Chrome
iOS

Windows

Native 32bit Application

Mac OS X

Native 32bit Application

Linux/Ubuntu

Native 32bit and 64bit Applications

Android

      App available in the Google's Play Store

Firefox

Available as Add On

Chrome

Available as Extension

iOS

iOS release is coming soon

The End
Thank You! Questions?
Ilian Sapundshiev @ilianste

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