The Personal Progress - opinion tracker
Presenting to you one of the side projects: the Personal Progress.
The goal of the project is to track over long time personal opinions on everything. As we change our social surroundings, we meet new people, we learn about new experiences and we discover things that we haven't known before. Each event has an impact on us; some will confirm our believes and others will challenge them. The personality changes in slowly but gradually, making it difficult to observe on the day-to-day basis. It's typically more obvious to people with whom we don't interact too often. Why leave this entertainment only to them? Go ahead and leave breadcrumbs for yourself.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to learn about the past yourself unless the Past You allowed for it. Blogs and diaries definitely help in this but their content is typically written in a form that makes it generally difficult to extract specific opinion. The Personal Progress asks direct question and reminds itself every so-often to check for any update.
The result will be achived over years. On top of simple, side-by-side answers' comparison each question will be classified into broad domains. You'll be able to check how they group together. Each answer will also be quantified on sentiment and category-specific axes allowing to extract intensity value.
Feel free to give it a go and let me know whether you (dis)like it, you think something requires improvement or simply as for additional features. The tool is still a work in progress but it's usable and I'm using it.