Reflection

You cannot remember last Thursday. Almost nobody can, which is why a rating you gave a day while you were still in it is worth more than the account you give of the month afterwards.

The daily check-in in Loggd is a number from 1 to 10 and one optional line, once a day. One line rather than a page: it takes about ninety seconds, and the note is there to say what the number was about. A month of those numbers settles questions you would otherwise argue about with yourself, like which weekday is reliably your worst, or what the days after a missed habit look like.

The year in pixels is the older, paper version of the same idea: one cell per day, coloured by how the day went, a year of them on one page. Posts here cover sixty journaling prompts short enough to answer in a line, how to keep the grid on paper if the screen is the problem, and how to read a month of ratings without turning it into a diagnosis.

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