Ah, Facebook. We hate you for being a massive time suck. We love you for documenting our lives (seriously, that memories feature toys with my emotions daily).<\/p>\n
If that time suck becomes too sucky<\/a> and you need to break up with your feed \u2013 but you want to keep a list of what you\u2019ve been doing \u2013 check out the brand-spanking-new app Haptic Life Tracker <\/a>for iOS.<\/p>\n The benefits, according to the makers: \u201cTrack your habits and activities in one timeline and get insights based on your actions. See what your life looks like at a glance.\u201d<\/p>\n This habit tracker lets you track useful things like how many glasses of water or cigarettes you\u2019ve had, music you\u2019ve listened to, or what books you\u2019ve read. If you need another reason to feel bad about yourself, you could also track how many times you got wasted last week vs. how many times you worked out \u2013 information you may or may not want to see in the cold, hard light of your phone screen (Hey, single people. It\u2019s COVID-19 Time, so can we all just agree not to track the number of days since we\u2019ve had a date? Thanks).<\/p>\n The free version of the habit tracker starts you off with seven preset categories, including music albums, games, and flights, and lets you add five customized categories. You can also auto import data from the iOS Health app.<\/p>\n Paid membership ($1.49 monthly or $12.99 for a year, with a seven-day free trial) gets you a virtually unlimited number of areas to obsess over. The membership also includes more ways to get insights and parse your daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly data.<\/p>\n With any tracking app, the big question is privacy and who gets to see your data. The app makers address privacy right off the bat. According to them, all content lives only on your phone and is not synced with external servers. So, hopefully, Google won\u2019t learn how abysmally low your water intake is compared with your wine log (Am I projecting a lot onto this app? I think I\u2019m projecting a lot onto this app).<\/p>\n Having all that data in one place could let you delete some of the more specialized tracking apps. By way of comparison, take a look at The Muse\u2019s \u201cThe Top 50 Apps for Tracking Everything in Your Life<\/a>.\u201d There should be at least one habit tracker you could cut to whittle down your list. Although maybe not PooLog, which tracks your bowel movements by \u201ctype, time and volume\u201d to help identify health issues. The Muse adds: \u201cOr it\u2019s just great for poo aficionados.\u201d I did not know, nor did I need to know there are \u201cpoo aficionados.\u201d<\/p>\n Haptic Life Tracker was recently featured on tech-product watch site ProductHunt.com<\/a>, where comments from maker Alexey Sekachov reveal they\u2019re working on versions for Apple Watch and Android, as well as potentially adding a social component.<\/p>\n Also on the informational treasure trove that is the Product Hunt comments feature, one commenter nailed the app\u2019s minimalist look and feel: \u201cBoth beautiful and creepy. Black Mirror meets black turtleneck (Steve Jobs would be proud).\u201d<\/p>\n