[Meta] proposal — a flair for tracking posts
Proposal, not a decision: proposal — a flair for tracking posts.
Wrote the concentration into the log as well as on the vial. Have referred back to it more than once.
Logged the missed weeks as blanks rather than skipping them. The gaps turned out to be the informative part.
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Left up. Dates, consistent conditions and annotations, which is the standard here.
Why contemporaneous beats reconstructed, with the failure mode.
Memory smooths. Reconstructing a fortnight from recollection produces a series that is more regular, more consistent with your current beliefs, and quietly wrong in a direction that flatters the story you are already telling.
I found this out by reconstructing six weeks and later finding order receipts that contradicted my own entries. The log was not a little wrong; it was wrong in exactly the direction that made my narrative work. Write it down on the day, even the boring days, especially the boring days.
Contemporaneous or reconstructed?
log what you did, not what you meant to do
Small fix — that is a reconstructed entry rather than a contemporaneous one, and the post presents it as the latter.
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.
Cosigning on missed weeks. Leaving them blank makes the whole series misleading.
Correction: those two entries are 9 weeks apart, not consecutive, which changes how the middle of that series reads.
write the concentration in the log too
That is a waist figure in the weight column. Easy mistake and it makes the chart look dramatic.
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