The reality: obsidian is not a great place to record self reported data. I was recording the supplements i took, the meals I ate, my habit checklist, and much more in my daily note template.
This didnt work for a number of reasons, the main one being a lot of these benefit from timeseries data.
In the age of LLM coding, I decided to just go ahead and vibe out some slop mobile app and sideload it as a developer test app. It is quite simple, just allows me to record the supplements I take, how much of them I take, and what time. This information is inhererently object oriented, and obsidian properties ( the way I was tracking it before ) just wasnt cutting it.
- I had a
supplementsproperty before that would just have list items (creatine, vitamind d3, zinc, etc). These have no context over dose, or more importantly timeseries data.- Timeseries is of particluar importance. If we have timeseries data of drugs and supplements we take, we can observe direct impacts via Garmin and Timeseries Health Data through Garmin Venu 4. Take a stimulant? See immediate HR and HRV effects.
This is not a complicated change, but something worth documenting in the pursuit of the Quantified Self dream.