[Log] spreadsheet gremlin, 61 tabs, here is the summary sheet
spreadsheet gremlin, 61 tabs, here is the summary sheet. This is a description of what happened to me and not a plan for anybody else.
Annotation is what makes a log survive contact with your future self. A single note beside an unusual week saves an hour of puzzled reconstruction later.
Attribution requires that one thing change at a time. A log with dose, training and intake all moving in the same fortnight cannot assign anything to any of them.
Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve the shape of the series. Dropping them silently makes the remaining points look more regular than they were.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
A log is only interpretable if the conditions are consistent. Same day, same time, same state, same scale — otherwise you are recording measurement variability rather than change.
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough
waist monthly, weight weekly, notes whenever
retrospective logs drift, contemporaneous ones do not
waist monthly, weight weekly, notes whenever
Agreed — and the payoff genuinely arrives in month six, not week two.
Choose a format you will still be able to open in two years. Plain text or a spreadsheet you export beats an application that may not exist.
A log is only interpretable if the conditions are consistent.
milos_mensa is right about blanks. Silent gaps make the series lie.
This. Annotating the weeks where something else changed is what makes the log interpretable later.
Yes — log what happened rather than what you intended. My retrospective entries were quietly wrong every time.
A log is a record of what you did. It is not a protocol, and posting one as a schedule for other members is a different thing that this board does not do.
Contemporaneous records do not drift; reconstructed ones do, and the drift is systematic rather than random because memory smooths.
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