Optimized - Lifelogging and Quantified Self Improvement App App Reviews

Ive been looking for an app like this for ages, and Im really happy with how clean, clear, and customizable this app is. The most recent update added some really useful improvements like having multiple timers running at once and having a timer start from your last activity. It is now much more usable for someone as scattered as I tend to me, doing multiple things at once, finishing all of them at different times, and then sitting down to begin something else without being completely sure what that something is.

As an introvert, I dont have a whole lot of social goals, I exercise only when I feel like it and entering in everything I do every day seems like too much of a chore. I already pretty much know when I feel satisfied by my day and dont really need to enter it into an app.

Update 3: I have been with this app for a while and the time management features continue to show me more and more on how I use my time, this purchase is well worth it. Update 2: Listen, the best way to use this app. 1. Keep the Moves and Fitbit syncs turned ON AT THE SAME TIME!! The Moves app is the bread and butter here, and will stop you from manually typing in every single location that you visit. Make sure that the moves app is sync up to a foursquare account. 2. If your traveling you dont have to type in everything that you do. At the end of the day open the moves app verify the locations that you visited. The foursquare local is pretty dead on. 3. Open OptimizeMe and sync. All of your Moves and foursquare information should now be listed in OptimizeMe. All you have to do from here is input the activity you were doing at the place. In most cases Optimize me would have done it for you. If you are at a shopping mart your data should be listed as shopping under that category. 4. Customize your activities, remove what you dont do and add what you like. Topics like Kids Time, Studying and Reading Comics. 5. Contact the developer. He is passionate about this app and is currently making changes as I type this. Each update gets better and better. Update: There are some great features in store for this app. Fitbit integration, data back up and customizable icons should be coming within the next update. with a menu search and and multiple timer are on the todo list. The support staff is amazing!! Review: So far I have enjoyed using this app. The customer support is outstanding and very supportive. This app takes a little getting used to but putting in the work will give you outstanding stats about your life, productivity, and behaviors. I am looking forward to all of the upgrades coming in very few months.

Easy to use and has all the functionality I could ever dream of, loooove it!

Therefore that it is connect to the moves app, it is pretty dumb. Moves can do a pretty good job in predicting if Im walking, cycling or running, optimize me not at all. No automated or smart suggestions. I dont see why they can be connected. For entering everything manually, very low smartness apart from suggesting what I might do next, it gets pretty quickly on the time expense. Too much effort on input for getting too little from it. I wouldnt recommend it.

My usually review for the app is five stars, but after last update the app doesnt load, instead it freezes on loading screen and nothing happens.

Ive been using this app for three months and its been really helpful to be able to track a number of activities in one convenient place. Ive absolutely enjoyed using it. However I have been forced to delete and reinstall the app multiple times in the last few days. Luckily I backed up my data 2 days ago, but currently the most recent update has prevented the app from loading despite deletion and reinstallation efforts. Nonetheless, I absolutely recommend the app because when it works it works very well. I hope the problem resolves and I can go back to logging all of my activities. It really is a wonderful and helpful app.

I updated to the new version of this app and all hell broke loose from there. It wont even start anymore. So I deleted it thinking that all my data was in the on their server but its not. You have to back it up to drop box in which I did but I still lost a month worth of data. Cant believe someone would create an update that would crash so badly.

As of 7/1/14 this app will not open on my iPhone.

Well thought interface that lets you start/stop tracking, or add a past activity to log, all without friction. Its up to you what you track with this app, and its so easy to add sth. New to track (and the app comes preloaded with tons of templates for tracking, from sports to sleeping to routines.) Beautiful design, including activity icons, good stability, easy with the phone battery. Regularly updated app too, given the developer-love it deserves.

Great self-reporting app. Highly customizable and easy to use. The team is very responsive to user needs and feature requests, and user support is prompt and responsive.

This app is good and getting better. It is poised to remain the leading app in this domain. It works great at what it does, so far. Anyone interested in quantified self should try this app and keep taps on its development. But... Well, there is nor but. Though I have some feature requests. Please seriously consider these. 1. The coolest thing: Voice integration. All the tapping and menu navigation is less than desirable and is burdensome. Id like to be able to open the app, hit the microphone button, and have it go like this: "done studying," "what quality of focus," "fifty percent," "what is your mood," "70 percent" etc. Just text to speech Q&A. God, this would be so awesome sauce. 2. An iPad version. PLEASE. Just create a layout for it. Lots of people have iPads. This must be in the pipeline right? How doesnt it exist already? Im looking forward to this one a lot. It doesnt have to be anything fancy. 4. Prospective vs. retrospective data. Like (a) how long one intends to spend doing something like reading blogs, vs how one actually takes; (b) When one intended to do something vs. when it was actually started; (c) day activity plans vs. day activity outcomes, etc. Even without any special analytical approach attached, it would be nice to have this data and notice trends and disparities. Related: calendar integration might be nice, like reading when someone has scheduled meetings, classes or study sessions, etc. 4. Last and perhaps least, I dont see why we must have only 4 kinds of activities. I get it: simplicity is a virtue, and its great to serve up an awesome starting structure to guide usage right away. But why not let the user customize main activity categories? As in, how many, their color, their names, and their component activities. Like, it would be nice to separate, for me, university work and job work, or have separate categories for sleep and exercise. Or a category for time spent on what one considers vices, like excessive cleaning or Facebook time (or whatever). Anyway, thats my wish-list. Keep up the great work!

This app was recommended by my health insurance and I thought it might be just what I was looking for but I cant figure the thing out. And honestly I dont want to spend half my day trying to OR logging my every movement and thought. Is there a user friendly guide that can make using this app simpler or did I waste $4?

It was a very promising app until it stopped working. I connected it with my Jawbone and since then it only trying to synchronise with UP and does not respond to anything. I cannot do anything and I am thinking now about deleting the whole application just to make it possible to reinstall and use it again..

The setup is wonderful and I think its useful and well worth it.

The self-tracking app Ive always wanted! Not bug-free, but too useful to do without!

With OptimizeMe tracking everything that you do is a breeze. Using OM is intuitive and interesting, finding correlations between the various ways you spend your time is a real eye opener. Support for OM is fast and responsive. I had a few issues early on and they would attempt a fix within 36 hours (during the World Cup mind you) of an error log. And in the end the error was my fault (I was a little over zealous in customizing my activities). Speaking of which, OM is fully customizable and its easy to generate your own activities. A solid app that keeps getting better with every update.

Definitely give it a try and see what it does. Youll see once you keep it up for at least a week. A lot of thought went into this. Completely different from other time trackers, to call it such would diminish its true application and value.

I paid the $3.99 for the app and never used it. The little robot guy that greets you and then asks if you like black or white better creeps me out. I immediately deleted it. Maybe Ill try again later.

I cant get the time clock on a event to stop running. I push finished and it acts like I never touched it at all. Frustrated, aggravated beyond belief. Not to happy with this app! Need a fix for this quick. Want to get rid of the app. So annoying!