Lifelens Telegram Bot
Lifelens is a Telegram bot that allows users to easily collect self-report health and wellness data about their life. See below for a list of available commands:
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Mood | Add a mood log entry |
| Morning Journal | Create a new morning journal entry |
| Evening Journal | Create a new evening journal entry |
| Week Journal | Create a new weekly review journal entry |
| Weather | View the weather forecast for the following day |
Journals
The journal commands comprise the majority of the bot’s functionality. Creating a journal entry starts a conversation between the user and Lifelens to collect data for the given journal type. Each metric utilizes a different keyboard in Telegram (i.e. text entry, number selection, radio buttons, etc.) to ensure user’s are able to create entries as efficiently as possible. Once all of the data for a given entry is collected, it’s stored in the associated MongoDB collection for that journal type.
Metrics Overview
| Journal | Metrics Tracked |
|---|---|
| Mood | scale 1-5 current mood |
| Morning | sleep quality, bed time, wake time, sleep duration, bodyweight, body mass index (BMI) |
| Evening | bool(exercised), bool(meditated), bool(drank enough water), # cups of coffee, bool(ate veggies), scale 1-5 anxiety, bool(got outside), what was the main focus of the day?, scale 1-5 do you feel excited about what’s ahead in the future? |
| Week | bool(worked towards fitness goal), what’s next week’s fitness goal?, scale 1-5 life progress satisfaction, bool(enough family time), bool(enough friend time), bool(intellectually fulfilled), bool(went somewhere new) |
Future Work
Currently, Lifelens only provides a method of data collection and leaves the task of retrieving and processing the data to the user. While it’s not the intention of this project to provide data visualization tooling, a few REST API endpoints could be added to allow users to easily query their data in MongoDB.