### What is Telemetry? Telemetry is an open-source progress tracker that predicts when you'll reach your goals. It's designed to help users oversee and predict the trajectory of any quantifiable goal, such as tracking fitness targets, financial growth, project milestones, and more. You can download the latest version at https://telemetry.software --- ### Who can benefit from using Telemetry? Telemetry is versatile and can be beneficial to anyone who has a goal with measurable progress. It's especially useful for startups, small businesses, and individuals who actively monitor success and seek predictive insights. --- ### How does Telemetry predict when I'll reach my goals? Telemetry uses various regression models, including linear, exponential, logarithmic, power, and polynomial, to analyze your progress data points and generate real-time predictions. As you add more data, the predictions become increasingly accurate. --- ### Can Telemetry track any type of goal? Telemetry is best suited for goals with quantifiable metrics. It can record and analyze any number that represents progress towards a goal, such as body weight, net worth, business revenue, etc. However, it's not designed for tracking habits or goals without numerical data. --- ### Is Telemetry difficult to use? Not at all. Telemetry was built with a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to create collections of progress trackers and input data. It’s suitable for users of all skill levels who need a powerful yet accessible tool for goal tracking. --- ### Where does my data go? Is it safe? Your data stays on your machine. Telemetry is a local-first application, which means your personal data remains secure and is never sent to a server or the cloud. This grants you full control over your information and ensures privacy. The only data we collect on occasion would be completely anonymous usage data for the sake of improving the platform. --- ### What anonymous data do you collect? We collect the following anonymous usage data to help improve the application. As you can see, the values are simply numerical counts, and do not contain any personally identifiable information or any of your private data. Your device is anonymized using a cryptographic SHA hash of the OS device identifier. - SHA-hashed ID - Version number - Platform (`windows`, `darwin` or `linux`) - The number of collections. - The number of trackers. - The number of goals. - The number of data points. - The date/time the application was last opened. --- ### What platforms is Telemetry available on? Telemetry is currently available on Windows and macOS. --- ### How can I contribute to Telemetry or suggest new features? As an open-source project, Telemetry welcomes contributions from developers and feedback from users. You can visit the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/RCKT-Software/telemetry) to open issues, submit pull requests, or simply offer suggestions. --- ### Is Telemetry completely free to use? Yes, Telemetry is open-source and free for anyone to download and use. There are no ads, no premium features, and no upsells. It's [MIT-licensed](https://github.com/RCKT-Software/telemetry/blob/main/LICENSE). --- ### What's next for Telemetry? Telemetry aims to continue improving by adding new features and refining existing ones. We are especially interesting in learning about where you data comes from, and how we can improve getting data points into the application. In the future we may offer cloud-based service add-ons, but those would be optional extras, and would have an open-source alternative. For example, syncing data between devices securely might be a cloud service we offer; but you could also roll your own way to keep things in sync as you own the files.