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The Evolution of My Time/Habit/Life Tracking

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." -John Gall

I built a pretty good daily tracking template, and I evolved it over time. It's serving me pretty well now. I'd like to show you the evolution.

Version 0 - I realized that tracking my time would be a good thing. I started writing down just one or two things per day.

Here's what my first day of tracking looked like:

26 May - Success

Daily Time/Habit/Life Tracking, v5

Hello there - long term readers of the site already know that I fill out a sheet of "time tracking" every day, writing down how I spend my time, what I eat, what I spend, and as I do my habits and daily appointments and things.

It does a lot of good things. It helps me stay on top of the lots of things I'm doing, and it helps me get data to improve things with.

My newest version has some incremental changes on it, but it's not a guide to getting started for yourself. If you want to get started for yourself, here's some posts to do that:

The post that shows how mine evolved from scratch, and guidelines for you to get started: "The Evolution of My Time/Habit/Life Tracking"