Flora Graham, deputy editor, newscientist.com
(Image: Marcin Ignac)
Two-and-a-half years of mouse moves, key presses and application launches are strung together to create Marcin Ignac's art. As a digital designer, he spends a lot of time in front of the computer, and he has covered canvasses with data collected by a logging program that collects his every click.
Each line in the image represents a day, with the colours indicating the program being used in the foreground at the time. Darkness indicates when his computer was off, so the lines that stretch into the blackness represent long nights spent in front of a screen, while holidays cut blank bands across the field of colour.
Ignac's project, titled Every Day of My Life, tracks his days in front of the screen, but you can take lifelogging even further. Wearable cameras allow you to track every moment, and can even lead to healthier choices and better memories. Watch New Scientist's own Helen Thompson's experience recording a typical day as a lifelogger.
To supplement your real-time video diary, why not track your location using GPS, save a record of every ebook and web page you've read, and pack it all in a few terabytes of cheap storage? The goal of all this self-recording is to offload your puny human memory into the cloud and begin to data-mine your life for patterns, looking for room for improvement.
But if you don't find any space to grow, don't fret - a colourful visualisation can turn those long hours of fruitless surfing into a work of art.
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