18 August 2013 - I’m really grateful to you for sharing this idea.
I’ve been writing a journal/diary-style daily reflection since Aug 1 as part of a quantified self project. I think it has the potential to be a good tool… but I also think I could use some of the structure a template like yours might provide.
I’m curious… Do you find yourself giving repetitive answers over the course of several days? Especially in regard to section C? For example, does “get to the point where I can do 10 pull-ups” come to mind everyday, since it is a goal that requires consistent effort over time?
The answers over the last 6 weeks have not been very repetitive at all. I’m not sure why this is exactly, since when I was much younger and would pray daily the answers were highly repetitive. It may have something to do with greater maturity and a greater appreciation of the purpose of the activity.
The project is tracking my diet, exercise, sleep, mood, productivity and a couple other misc. items.
I’m not sure exactly how to use the daily text entries yet, or if I’ll use them in any direct quantified sense at all. One possibility is to run keyword searches to look for correlations between increased/decreased mood and the presence of increased frequency of certain items within any given day’s/week’s entry(s) (e.g. “my boss”, “work”, “girlfriend”).
More than that though, I wanted to have a day-by-day narrative account available to check against my “harder” data to help provide clarity and answer questions in regard to interesting trends and correlations I observe.
18 August 2013 - I’m really grateful to you for sharing this idea.
I’ve been writing a journal/diary-style daily reflection since Aug 1 as part of a quantified self project. I think it has the potential to be a good tool… but I also think I could use some of the structure a template like yours might provide.
I’m curious… Do you find yourself giving repetitive answers over the course of several days? Especially in regard to section C? For example, does “get to the point where I can do 10 pull-ups” come to mind everyday, since it is a goal that requires consistent effort over time?
The answers over the last 6 weeks have not been very repetitive at all. I’m not sure why this is exactly, since when I was much younger and would pray daily the answers were highly repetitive. It may have something to do with greater maturity and a greater appreciation of the purpose of the activity.
Interesting, could you elaborate on this “quantified self project?” How do you plan to analyze these entries quantitatively?
The project is tracking my diet, exercise, sleep, mood, productivity and a couple other misc. items.
I’m not sure exactly how to use the daily text entries yet, or if I’ll use them in any direct quantified sense at all. One possibility is to run keyword searches to look for correlations between increased/decreased mood and the presence of increased frequency of certain items within any given day’s/week’s entry(s) (e.g. “my boss”, “work”, “girlfriend”).
More than that though, I wanted to have a day-by-day narrative account available to check against my “harder” data to help provide clarity and answer questions in regard to interesting trends and correlations I observe.