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Psygraph consists of several tools that monitor your information. For example, when you start and stop the Stopwatch, the start and stop times are logged to a server. While the Stopwatch is running, various data that you specify (such as GPS location and acceleration) will also be logged.
Briefly, the four tools are:
- Stopwatch: The Stoppwatch tool is used for tracking the length of time that you meditate or spend on another activity.
- Timer: The Timer tool is used to set reminders, such as a gong which indicates the end of a meditation session. You can also set the gong to go off at a random time during the day and print an inspirational quote.
- Counter: The Counter tool is used for the practice of breath counting, which can be used as a measure of mindfulness. You can also use this page to set a motion alarm that goes off if you move too much :).
- Note: The note page allows you to annotate your meditation sessions with text and/or audio notes. These notes can automatically create posts on your WordPress server if you are logged in and that option has been turned on.
Categories
All events and their associated time and position data belong to a particular category. The default category is “Uncategorized”, but you may create new categories for your data and change the category of existing data. If you wish to see the data belonging to all categories, you can create the special “*” category (categories can be created on the Preferences page). Categorizing the data is useful if you wish to distinguish the timers for different types of events (such as time spent in shamatha vs vipassana meditation).
Times
All events have a time. The time of an event is specified as follows:
DAYS:HOURS:MINUTES:SECONDS.FRACTION
For example, to specify one minute and eight seconds, you would write “1:08”. To specify one and a half seconds, you would write “1.5”. This format extends to months and years in an obvious way (today’s date would be YYYY:MM:DD:HH:MM:SS). If you wish to specify one hour, just write “1:00:00” (or, since zero minutes and seconds is the default, you can just write “1::”).
The Data
The data from Psygraph can be used in different ways. Within the application itself, the data can be displayed as a list of events, as a 2-D graph, or on a map. The data can also be emailed to you, or kept in sync with a WordPress site from which it can be exported in various formats, and then processed in other applications.