Trackulous - track anything

November 19, 2007 11:54 AM

Trackulous - Track Anything. There have to be ten dozen ways to track your weight online. MeFi users track thteir social athletic accomplishments at WeEndure and Runner+. But what if we wanted to track (and graph) Javelinas Sighted, Cookies Tossed, Fights with Boyfriend, or any other user-defined numerical quantity over time? And what if we wanted to share our statistics with our friends? For that, Trackulous - a simple, elegant, mobile-friendly web tool.
posted by ikkyu2 (19 comments total)

Here's an example: Fights with Boyfriend.
posted by ikkyu2 at 11:55 AM on November 19, 2007

I think that if I used this I would have to add "Hours spent on Trackulous" as a Trackable, and thereby spend less time on everything else I use to waste my time. Of course, the dishes would never get done, either.
posted by mitzyjalapeno at 11:59 AM on November 19, 2007

Now we finally have a way to log all those "Pepsi Blue" comments.
posted by ardgedee at 12:01 PM on November 19, 2007

Aren't there some dots missing? track.u.lous? tracku.lo.us?

Ugly interface, nice idea.
posted by rokusan at 12:02 PM on November 19, 2007

So it's like Twitter, only organized and pretending that anyone cares?
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 12:10 PM on November 19, 2007

Is anyone tracking metafilter flameouts yet?
posted by drezdn at 12:18 PM on November 19, 2007

i know what a social accomplishment is, i know what an athletic accomplishment is, but i have absolutely no idea what a social athletic accomplishment is.
posted by bruce at 12:23 PM on November 19, 2007

i have absolutely no idea what a social athletic accomplishment is

line-jumping
running away from commitment
salad tossing
hurling insults
&tc
&tc
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 12:39 PM on November 19, 2007 [1 favorite]

i have absolutely no idea what a social athletic accomplishment is.

It's just an extension of the insidious LOLFATTIES culture that prevails on Metafilter.
posted by mullacc at 12:41 PM on November 19, 2007

I guess the advantage over Excel is the built-in sharing? But Excel is better-designed and has neat stats / math features.
posted by grobstein at 12:45 PM on November 19, 2007

i have absolutely no idea what a social athletic accomplishment is

It's an athletic accomplishment you share with friends, which is the whole point of these social-networking athletic tracking sites I linked.
posted by ikkyu2 at 1:25 PM on November 19, 2007

AnnaA seems really into it. I'm not tracking her, though.
posted by cairnish at 1:49 PM on November 19, 2007

I think of these things, and then I think nobody would ever use them, and then they show up here.
posted by dhartung at 2:55 PM on November 19, 2007

I wonder if Count Trackula uses this.
posted by erpava at 3:17 PM on November 19, 2007 [2 favorites]

So it's like Twitter, only organized and pretending that anyone cares?

*cough*
posted by DU at 4:40 PM on November 19, 2007

Geez, a good idea, but the interface reeks of 1996 Livejournal.
posted by tmcw at 4:54 PM on November 19, 2007 [1 favorite]

I think I hate the web now.
posted by blacklite at 10:54 PM on November 19, 2007

I can't wait until my home computer tracks all this shit for me. I can graph sleep against weight, work done against hours of tv watched.
YOUR LIFE ON A GRAPH! COMING SOON!
posted by greytape at 7:16 AM on November 20, 2007

This sounded like a neat idea, but then it turned out that it sucked. Needs more web 2.0. Also, on the example, the graph is resized so that you can't even read it. That seems like a pretty major flaw on a website that's supposed to be about graphing things.
posted by !Jim at 9:10 PM on November 20, 2007