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Comment author: brilee 20 August 2013 06:12:51PM 6 points [-]

I did this sort of tracking for several months. My generalizable experiences are:

  • Everyone has their own situation. Following the guide of some other person exactly is bound to fail. Instead, you should start simple, and let your system evolve as you decide that you need to track different things.
  • That being said, it seems like some things tend to turn up repeatedly as "good things to keep track of", like "today I was happy for X", or "how much sleep did I get last night?"
  • Since no two people really have the same routine, instead of using specialized software, the flexibility of a raw text file with a template probably works best.
Comment author: Creutzer 21 August 2013 05:12:05AM *  0 points [-]

Indeed. I suspect that if I used the above template, it would actually have a hugely negative effect on me. There simply isn't enough stuff happening on any single day of my life to fill the template in a meaningful way, so I'd have to write either "nothing" or the huge general things that are very hard to change and which would come up every day, neither of which seems helpful.

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