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	CLI Tricks: track
	May 31st, 2018
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	This is a part of a series of phlog entries where I will share
	some of my command line tricks, tips, and scripts.


	## track ##

	Fitness trackers are all the rage. Chances are that you've got one
	on you right now, weirdo. Collecting data about your own behavior
	is pretty neat. It's extra cool if you can do it in a way that
	doesn't also give that data away to nefarious strangers who want
	to take over the world, but I digress.

	I like tracking my shiz too. I've used my phone to count steps in
	the past, and I have a scale in my bathroom, and a tape-measure
	for my big belly. But where do I save those numbers so I can look
	back on my amazing progress of awesomeness later? I don't really
	want to hand that over to Google or MyFitnessPal. They don't need
	to know that stuff. I could just store it in text files for myself
	and parse them later.

	And that's exactly what I decided to do. I keep some csv files in
	dropbox, or in nextcloud, or in syncthing. But logging stuff in
	CSV files isn't really fun, so I wrote a little tracker app to
	help me out.

	Now you can enjoy the glory of my crappy little program too!
	First, grab a copy over on github [0] and install it.

	[0] track

	It's really easy to use. Start by checking the man page or
	spitting out some help:

	$ man track

	$ track -h

	See how to use it? Great! You're done!

	But seriously, it is really basic. You can just add a new metric
	to track by tracking something to it for the first time. It allows
	only one data point per day. It doesn't care what format that data
	is in.

	There's probably easy ways to break it, so, um, don't do those.

	Do you have something you want to add to it to make it better?
	Cool! Make a pull request and gimme-gimme. I probably want that
	feature too.

	Oh, as a side-note, the data I used in my post "Fat" [1] all was
	logged with this script. I have an example in that post of how to
	generate a graph on the command line using the jp utility. Check
	it out.

	[1] Fat

	Now that track is a bit more sophisticated, I can track my weight
	by typing:

	$ track -ac weight \| jp -input csv -width 67 -height 25

	A bit of an improvement!