The document discusses 3 design considerations for personal informatics tools: 1) Provide immediate benefit to users by answering questions about their current status and past history. 2) Support evolving and changing user needs over time through different phases of maintenance and discovery. 3) Analyze and integrate multiple types of user data, such as calendar events, locations, weight, etc. to provide more complete insights.

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4. Provide
Immediate Benefit
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9. People’s Information
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12. 6 Kinds of Questions
Status
History
Goals
Discrepancy
Context
Factors
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13. Maintenance Discovery
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Phase Phase
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14. Maintenance Discovery
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15. Support Analysis
of Multiple Types
of Data
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17. Calendar Location Weight
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20. 1 Provide Immediate Benefit
2 People’s Information
Needs Change
3 Support Analysis of
Multiple Types of Data
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