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For ~10 years I have been doing what I call my "Daily Score". It is basically me reflecting and self-evaluating my day in 6 categories, that are the most releva

For ~10 years I have been doing what I call my "Daily Score". It is basically me reflecting and self-evaluating my day in 6 categories, that are the most relevant to me: - Sleep - Diet - Exercise - Execution (how well did I did what I should be doing) - Mood - Social (how much did I socialize, spend time with loved ones etc) The value is: - During the day I might consider: "what would it take to end this day on a 3 in Diet", for example - When I enter the values for a day, I reflect over what went well/wrong - which can help me improve Every morning, I get an email with a reminder to fill in my Daily Score for the previous day. It takes 30-60 seconds - sometimes a bit more, if it sets off a chain of thoughts. It started out a spreadsheet, then I built a simple web-app for it about a year ago. I often thought about sharing it, but doubt it makes sense without a lot of explanation about the value being in the self-reflection - not the data.

donclark 5y ago
Is your web-app for public use? I am curious to learn more and/or to use it.
- klausjensen 5y ago
  I am afraid not. I think the explanations required around the process/reflection makes it too difficult to "market" - so I have put it off.
muzani 5y ago
Have you learned anything interesting or unexpected? I try this for a few weeks at a time then stop because the only thing I've learned is that tracking myself makes all the metrics slip. But I assume that after several months, you'll get some reliable data.
- klausjensen 5y ago
  Biggest lesson has been that the effect of tracking has led to positive improvements, because of the awarenes it creates. Honestly - the data analysis and looking back - has taught me pretty very little I did not already know. Yes, I can observe that some metrics almost always align, because exercising makes me more aware of my diet (not wanting to "waste" the effort made at the gym) - and that my mood and productivity are closely aligned as well. I wish I could say I gained some big insight from looking back at the data, but really it is mostly jsut about the forced reflection here and now.

donclark 5y ago

Is your web-app for public use? I am curious to learn more and/or to use it.

klausjensen 5y ago
I am afraid not. I think the explanations required around the process/reflection makes it too difficult to "market" - so I have put it off.

muzani 5y ago

Have you learned anything interesting or unexpected? I try this for a few weeks at a time then stop because the only thing I've learned is that tracking myself makes all the metrics slip. But I assume that after several months, you'll get some reliable data.

klausjensen 5y ago
Biggest lesson has been that the effect of tracking has led to positive improvements, because of the awarenes it creates. Honestly - the data analysis and looking back - has taught me pretty very little I did not already know. Yes, I can observe that some metrics almost always align, because exercising makes me more aware of my diet (not wanting to "waste" the effort made at the gym) - and that my mood and productivity are closely aligned as well. I wish I could say I gained some big insight from looking back at the data, but really it is mostly jsut about the forced reflection here and now.