# Workflow App, Qunatified Self & Tableau

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2016-11-03
- **Format:** Video · 2 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Productivity, Data prep
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/workflow-app-qunatified-self-tableau
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/M3u6XN4tOTQ

I walk through the Workflow app on iOS, showing how widgets and pre-built recipes can fire actions in the background, capture data and push it out to places like Google Sheets. I demonstrate a fuel tracker that prompts for input, grabs my location for context and saves it all for quantified-self tracking.

## Key takeaways

- Workflow on iOS lets you build automations that run from widgets, the share sheet or the Apple Watch
- The app works much like Alteryx - chaining inputs, variables, behaviours and outputs into a recipe
- You can hook into Apple APIs and external services such as Google Sheets to capture and store data
- Location can be pulled in automatically to add context to logged data, such as identifying which fuel station you're at
- It's a flexible tool for quantified-self tracking, from logging water to recording fuel purchases

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/workflow-app-qunatified-self-tableau

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