These are great suggestions, thank you! I think you're probably right that a spreadsheet is a good place to start, perhaps with IFTTT / Zapier / Shortcuts / etc

These are great suggestions, thank you! I think you're probably right that a spreadsheet is a good place to start, perhaps with IFTTT / Zapier / Shortcuts / etc to try to start plugging in some of the automation. I put a custom function in a google sheet that captures the current time when writing in a cell, and that platform has cell-specific edit history now as well. It's a shame that there isn't a bigger player in the space for user friendly custom metrics like this