David O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone else here use org-mode for fitness and/or health tracking?
I have used emacs as my running exercise diary for some years now,
currently over 300 exercises in the database.
>From the beginning I used a plain text emacs file for my exercise diary
entries.
Later I began to use org-mode for its folding and table features. I then
made my own elisp files for maintaining a database of all my org-mode
running diary entries in parallell.
When I made a new run a insert it with a command both in org-mode file
(as a heading with proerties) and in a separate data file.
I can use my own functions to get statistical tables of my training in
month och week tables.
The data is sorted in a special tree structure for fast lookup of
special heart-rate intervals or exercise types.
With point on a exercise entry I can get a colorized table fast in other
window with other runs with similar result too compare and eventually
see some progress.
Lately I have been thinking of and trying to implement a true org-mode
running diary. Which means to use the org-mode file as raw-data file
(properties) instead of my parallell sexp-assoc-list-elisp-data-file.
I tried column mode but it is far too slow for 300 headings and the
calculations possible is only sums but I need much more.
This is how my diary can look like:
----
** 2008
*** 2008-10 :october:
*** 2008-11 :november:
**** <2008-11-01 sat> :running:hill:
**** <2008-11-02 sun> :skiing:alpine:
**** <2008-11-04 tue> :running:lake:
:PROPERTIES:
:TIME: 27:34
:DISTANCE: 6.0
:HEARTRATE: 169
:MAXHEARTRATE: 183
:PACE: 4:36
:SHAPEINDEX: -8.4%
:WEATHER: +5 cloudy
:CALORIES: 370
:SHOES: nb858-1
:STATFLAG: t
:END:
Strong legs but high heartrate.
----
Then I also have a calendar section and a statistical table section with
dynamic blocks for statistics of certain running routes,
year/month stats or record tables.
I will post here if I manage to make a nice fast org-data mapping from
headline-properties to assoc-lists or hash-tables together with some
nice table-creating functions.
Thanks alot for org-mode!
It is so flexible and clean. I also use it as a agenda planner,
time-tracker and notebook.
/Mikael Fornius
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