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An iPhone app for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurable. Reporter-app.com

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Frog design on using Reporter to build the resume of the future.

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Thanks for all of your support in 2014… Happy Reporting in 2015!

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The Best Apps of 2014

Gizmodo selected Reporter as one of 2014’s best apps. Now might be a good time to pick it up and set up a survey for measuring 2015…

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Extending Reporter

It's been nearly 6 months since the release of Reporter. We've been thrilled by the response so far and are working hard to ensure that Reporter adds the features you've been requesting. We are currently integrating iCloud backups and preparing for the release of iOS 8.

One of the most exciting developments has been watching the ways in which our users are weaving Reporter into their code. Below is a list of projects we found on GitHub that integrate Reporter:

eturk/reporter-ruby

bradfeehan/reporter-ruby

JorgenHookham/flow-reporter

ecandino/graphic

sambev/reporter_view

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How Buster Benson is using Reporter to track (and improve) his quality of life.

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External Visualization Tools

For those of you who wish to dive deeper into Reporter data, these are some  tools that may be helpful:

NumberPicture

Raw.DensityDesign

Palladio

Zenobase

KillerCup Report Visualizer (source)

Datahero

Plot.ly

Filtergraph

Dataseed

Chartlr

Wizard for Mac

Tableau

Drop chop

CartoDB

Arbor.js

Quadrigram

Infogr.am

Exploratory.io

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The Reporter JSON Save File Schema

A description of the data written to the Reporter App Dropbox sync folder.

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George Gritsouk shares his thoughts on how to get the most out of Reporter and where it fits into the Quantified Self landscape:

QS focuses on physical stats like weight, sleep time, running performance, etc. Reporter leans onto ongoing state like current mood, location, surrounding people, etc. I feel like it’s trying to peer into what my day-to-day really looks like. It collects the kind of information that automatic trackers like FitBit can never know, and so complements them perfectly.

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Are you looking forward to today?

“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”

And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

— Steve Jobs

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Great suggestion from a new Tumblr dedicated to Reporter questions.

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I’m thrilled to launch my new app Reporter today. I’m indebted to the hard work of Drew Breunig and Friends of The Web for helping me finally bring this idea to life.

In 2011 Drew built the first working version of the app for me, and named it “Reporter”. It didn’t look like much, but the original app worked perfectly throughout 2012 and the data it produced culminated in my 2012 Feltron Annual Report. 

Reporter’s random prompts to answer a survey had made tracking the year a breeze and helped me to investigate questions that would have been impossible to answer using other methods. I was interested in who I spent time with, but to track this in an ongoing basis is a full-time job. I added questions for what I was wearing, eating or drinking and if I was working or not… and we streamlined the process to ensure that a report only took seconds to answer. We also added in background sampling to get information from the phone on the weather, my location and the ambient noise level.

That app is now all grown up. You can customize all the questions, and turn on a range of sensors to gather background data, and the app will visualize your responses. If you are interested in a lightweight means of exploring your behavior, give it a try.

Download on iTunes or visit our website.

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