The Reporter app is a customizable mobile app that helps you document your life and was created by American graphic designer Nicholas Felton. The app was inspired by a quantifiable means of living where Felton has collected 79 hours worth of data about the designer himself. Turning his life into a series of spreadsheets, graphs and charts; the Reporter app can measure everyone and everything.
The app asks a diverse range of questions throughout the day, like Where are you, Who are you with? or What are you doing? The user is allowed to answer by typing in text, a simple Yes or No and options for multiple choice.
"Reporting is like journaling - a practice that provides the most real value in hindsight." The app also encourages adding personalized questions like "how did you sleep?".
What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Life-tracking Apps
- Opportunity for developing new life-tracking apps that allow users to document and quantify their lives in a customized way.
- Quantifiable Living
- Potential for creating innovative products and services that enable individuals to collect and analyze data about various aspects of their lives.
- Personalized Reporting
- Disruptive innovation opportunity to create reporting apps that allow users to add personalized questions and tailor the data collection process to their specific needs.
Sectors Adopting This
- Mobile App Development
- Opportunity for developers to create customizable mobile apps that help users track and quantify different aspects of their lives.
- Data Analytics
- Potential for the data analytics industry to develop tools and technologies that can analyze large amounts of personal data collected from life-tracking apps.
- Personal Productivity
- Disruptive innovation opportunity for companies in the personal productivity industry to integrate life-tracking features into their existing products and help users optimize their daily routines.
