I recently received a private Alpha invite to try out Friday, an Android application made by Dexetra, http://goo.gl/42auo . Dexetra is a private company located in Cochin, India and primarily focus on smartphone platforms such as Andriod, iPhone, Symbian and Blackberry.
Friday http://goo.gl/2r0RR is a logger for your activity with your phone. It basically logs places your go, the calls you make, the chats / SMS messages you make, pictures and locations you take, etc. Overtime it becomes a journal of your activities and allows you to recall events such as what did I do in Denver. To do this you have to give Friday access to everything on your phone which is a bit scary but required to provide you detailed analytics of your daily patterns.
Two things I find that are fairly interesting to me, although not very useful are:
- Hourly Profiles
- Daily Trivia facts
The hourly Profiles basically shows how many calls, sms, mails messages, places, and lists over a 24 hour period. You can see when you get the highest call volume or receive the most emails daily. It is interesting to see over a daily period when you have spikes in activities. The question is how can I sue this information to have a more balance profile.
The daily trivia facts is just kind of fun. Facts like that I have the highest emails on Monday and the lowest on Tuesday or that the majority of calls from X are never answered. BTW I know I never answer those calls. It’s just fun facts about your daily habits.
Since I just started with Friday my plan is to have it monitor my work life over the next month and then see if I find utility in using it. So more to come.
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