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I started keeping a bullet journal a year ago. In my "monthly" view, I have a habit/mood tracker, so I track several things including: - how my day went (good/

I started keeping a bullet journal a year ago. In my "monthly" view, I have a habit/mood tracker, so I track several things including: - how my day went (good/okay/bad) - predominant mood (happy/meh/sad/angry/stressed/lonely) - talking to family (mom/dad/siblings) - hours slept - run / exercise / other high level of activity - reading / podcast / music / writing - dine out, order in, cook - social stuff, like whether I hung out with friends or had date night or saw a movie/play or... My original goal was that I was feeling depressed and angry sometimes, and I wanted to see if there was something in my habits/moods that would give me a clue as to what it was. It turns out that I have a TON of "okay" days and a lot of "bad" days, but very few "good" days. The only correlation I can see is that "bad" days correlate with "angry" moods, which makes sense. Beyond that, not much insight... Like many others, I track my exercise through Strava and via the Activities app on my Apple Watch. I'd like to track more things, but haven't figured out what other metrics I want to keep track of...

miguelrochefort 8y ago
Nutrition is probably the most useful metrics, but it's also requires the most work. I'm still trying to figure out a way to simplify it. For now, I just take pictures of my meals (I always eat out). Tracking your time can also be very useful. Imagine being able to know what you were doing 5 years ago at 2PM, or how much time you spent on Hacker News over the past month.
- Jemaclus 8y ago
  I've thought about tracking my meals, but I don't think I really care enough to know what I ate on which days. That's why I tend to have a simple view on my monthly tracker as a proxy for "cook" (usually healthy), "order in" (never healthy), or "dine out" (depends, but about 50/50). I know people that log everything they eat, but it just winds up being too verbose for me. I'm really not disciplined enough to keep track of my actual time to that degree. My daily journal is a little bit more of an event log, where I log my schedule for the day and anything interesting that happened. Some days it's very long, some days it's short, but I get something in there every day.

miguelrochefort 8y ago

Nutrition is probably the most useful metrics, but it's also requires the most work. I'm still trying to figure out a way to simplify it. For now, I just take pictures of my meals (I always eat out). Tracking your time can also be very useful. Imagine being able to know what you were doing 5 years ago at 2PM, or how much time you spent on Hacker News over the past month.

Jemaclus 8y ago
I've thought about tracking my meals, but I don't think I really care enough to know what I ate on which days. That's why I tend to have a simple view on my monthly tracker as a proxy for "cook" (usually healthy), "order in" (never healthy), or "dine out" (depends, but about 50/50). I know people that log everything they eat, but it just winds up being too verbose for me. I'm really not disciplined enough to keep track of my actual time to that degree. My daily journal is a little bit more of an event log, where I log my schedule for the day and anything interesting that happened. Some days it's very long, some days it's short, but I get something in there every day.