A new trend is emerging. People are measuring things about themselves, storing them online, generating graphs and looking for patterns in their own data. Some people track their baby’s sleep patterns, others track their driving habits, or even their sex life. Monica Hesse reported on this trend in the Washington Post recently.

It’s a phenomenon WIRED editors Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf call The Quantified Self. They have a regular Meetup group in the San Francisco Bay Area to discuss these ideas and talk about topics like: Personal Genome Sequencing, Lifelogging, Self Experimentation, and Medical Self-Diagnostics.

This is exciting for us at CureTogether because we’re developing our health tracking component based on excellent feedback from our members on what kinds of things they want to track related to their condition. It will be completely anonymous (unless you choose to share your data with your doctor or family/friends). If you have suggestions for what you’d like to track for your condition, please leave a comment below, or write to us.

Wishing everyone a healthy day.

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