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Life & fun · December 30, 2019

Keeping Track of My Life in a Spreadsheet

I use a daily activity log to track my habits and plan future activities.

Keeping Track of My Life in a Spreadsheet launched on December 30, 2019 with 10 votes, #801 of 2,946 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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Keeping Track of My Life in a Spreadsheet is a personal documentation project launched in 2019. It helps individuals organize and monitor various aspects of their daily lives using spreadsheet formats. The project is designed for people who want to systematically record and review personal data, habits, or activities. It appeals to those interested in self-tracking and life organization through simple, accessible tools.

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As many of my friends know, I keep track of much of my life in spreadsheets. There are several pieces to this system, but fortunately it’s the kind of system that you can adopt (and discard) incrementally. So, rather than explaining the whole thing in one go, I will explain one core piece in this post. In this post, I will detail how I use a spreadsheet as a daily activity log . My spreadsheet lets me keep a record of all the things I’ve done. It then also rolls up this data in interesting ways that help me with reflecting on and planning my life. Finally, it interacts with a bot system I’ve written for myself to help me keep my life on track. I have a single spreadsheet…from davidbieber.com

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