How I’m Using the Daylio App to Spot Patterns Without Journaling

As a data nerd, I track many things — and lately I’ve been using the Daylio app, a journal for people who don’t like to journal. For each day, you can tap a few icons that reflect your emotions, your habits, your progress against your goals and so on. Over time, your dashboard will help you see patterns and trends in your behaviour, and how they impact your outcomes.

While it’s geared to tracking mood and emotions, I’ve customized my Daylio to track additional things I care about – tasks like publishing a newsletter or attending a networking event, and milestones like acquiring a new client. It’s journaling without writing, but still gives me useful data to review over time. At the end of the year, I’ll have a clear visual summary of what I actually did, not just what I intended to do. Give it a try!

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