Source: my life

Tools: Google Sheets + a tool I built to text me daily asking me a series of "diary" type questions and then records the answer to sheets

Goals at the top are negative goals to the left in red (want to drink less and eat less restaurant food) and positive in the middle in green (more exercise, devotionals and fasting). The rest I like to track just out of curiosity.

Not quite hitting my goals this year as it's been a tough one. (the Quality of Life pie chart is skewed by my typical optimism).

The bottom right chart is some data from my tracking of who I spend time with. These are the top 10 people and you can see a little context for who they are in relation to me.

What do the percentages represent? Like, did you exercise on 32% of all days?

I'm trying to understand your life. You spent ~90 days away from home but only a few away from your family... you must have had a lot of family vacations?

Also over a hundred days of crying last year... man that seems like a lot, you okay?

Neat data. I hope next update you can exercise more than you cry.

Haha that’s a solid goal and a sad way to look at my year

My daughter was just born and we spent some time at in-laws house to help. Not all the crying was sad. Thanks for looking out though :)

Yes, I figured that was more relevant than saying I’ve worked out 100 whatever days so far this year

Usually you want to abstract big numbers, as you've done here. But using a percentage kind of blurs the understanding. For example, did you eat restaurant food for 63% of your meals or on 63% of days?

Because the time frame is known and familiar to people, I'd probably have gone with days.

OP at restaurant foods a lot, considering how few great meals they had.

I wonder if those meals were mostly home-cooked or at restaurants.

That's... a lot of alcohol, even at 1 drink/day.

I eat out too much. And the “great meal” for me needs to be really special / memorable. And it’s never one I cook myself haha

Totally get that. Yeah its days. I just track how many days I do or don’t do something.

It’s something I’m working on. But yes, it is

Hi, any chance you would share the google spreadsheet with some sample data instead of your private data? Im interested in trying this for a year.

sure, let me templatize it then I'll share it over

Can I get in on this pls?

Why do you have room mates when you have a wife and children. Are they lodgers in your family home?

Also, married with kid(s) and two roommates?

Same house different unit. Housemates would be more accurate

Same house different unit, good friends

Sure thing. Here it is. Got 2 lines of data just to help see how it works. Not the cleanest thing I've made since it was initially just personal. But I hope it helps you https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-5Z5CVkgcnC8uN7V3DWCIiEgT1NPdx3U9vVfhYWj1-4/copy

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Might I suggest breaking down your goals into smaller time frames?
Ex: I'll work out this Monday and Wednesday at 6.

Well don’t cry about it, drop and give us 20

I find it interesting that you ate restaurant food 63%, but only had a good meal 9%....I might be reading into this too much, but it seems that we agree that the quality of a meal out has fallen drastically.

How do you stay consistent with tracking the data? I’ve been struggling hard to stay consistent with something as simple as journaling

Sir yes sir

Great* meal

I built a bot that texts me and asks me about these things daily. Reminds me two more times if I don’t answer the first time (1 and 2hours after asked). Then logs the answers to a spreadsheet. I am a zero inbox type guy so I feel compelled to respond to texts - even if I know it’s my own bot

Yeah, the goal was M/W/F plus one weekend day. I’m still doing some exercises at home but for this tracking I only count it if I did a full workout or played a sport

But yeah, restaurants have taken a serious hit

I also sent a request for access

This seems like a better app than most of the top rated apps on playstore.

• Feels bad 1,5%, but cries at 37%.
• 79% of alcohol-related stuff? (WTF)
• Got 2 Roommates, 1 Wife and 1 daughter? Puh.

Do you mind me asking what tool did you use to prompt you about questions throughout the day? I was thinking about using google forms, but im sure that unless I get reminded to put in data I will not be able to keep myself accountable putting it in everyday.

How do you keep track of the data?

If you click that link it should allow you to copy it to your google account. Let me know if that doesn't work.

It's something I custom built myself to text me every day. There are costs involved so I can't really share it for free.

Would folks pay for this?

Sorry that I'm a little weird.

I built a bot that texts me and asks me about these things daily. Reminds me two more times if I don’t answer the first time (1 and 2hours after asked). Then logs the answers to a spreadsheet. I am a zero inbox type guy so I feel compelled to respond to texts - even if I know it’s my own bot

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Oh I see, no worries, thanks for the honesty, and the spreadsheet of course!

How do you spend 95% of your irme with your wife but 69% with your roommate?

First of all, nice Second, a lot of time away from home with wife and baby this year Third, roommate sometimes travels away or there are even days I don't see them despite living in the same building

Also, roommates should better be called housemates - same house different unit

I would. And I would love the app to be minimalistic and do just this functionality.

Yeah, my imagining would be the app is purely a place to setup your phone number and at any time change the questions being asked. Plus your reports that you could time box. All the app would do apart from that is text you and log responses.

I just don't know how to market an app

Actually, I think I'd rather it just be a simple mobile friendly website so part of the appeal is that it's not another app

hey man, thats so interesting, how did you keep track of this data? some app or just writing down everyday?

Built something to text me to ask and log my responses to each question

nice, i found an app called daily bean, maybe it can help, i will try to track my habits like that too, cool to see the results