[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…
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.