Your best-feeling evenings were the ones with friends. The last three weeks had none.
Try thisPut one dinner with friends on the calendar.
The examined life, well lived.
Find out what gives you energy, and what takes it.
Tell it how your day went, in your own words. Well Lived logs each part with how it felt, shows you the pattern across weeks, and suggests one small change at a time.
Describe it · example
“Slept badly. Slow morning on the couch, low. Walk with my sister at ten, felt better. Worked until four, flat. Cooked dinner, that was nice.”
Example begins when you reach it.
- 8:00 AM–10:00Slow morning on the couch-4
- 10:00 AM–11:00Walk with my sister+5
- 11:00 AM–4:00Work0
- 5:30 PM–6:30Cooked dinner+4
Logged: 0mTimes, areas and energy come from what was said. Edit any of them before saving.
- Rate each part of the day from −10 to +10, or let your words set it.
- See your lifts and your drains ranked, with the hours behind each.
- Notice what your best days have in common, without trying to remember.
Sleep · Coloured blocks are logged time · Pale track is outside this short example
Everything in one place
Your day, with everything that happened in it.
Time is the thread. Meals, workouts, sleep, heart rate and the people you saw sit on the hour they happened, so you can see how they line up with each other. Turn on only what you want to track.
- 6:30 AM
Woke up
From Oura7h 42m asleepSleep score 84 - 7:15 AM+5
Strength
- Squat3 × 5 @ 135 lb
- Push-ups15 · 15 · 12
- 12:30 PM+3
Lunch
38 g protein620 kcalEstimated from the photo - 2:00 PM−2
Team call
From Pixel WatchHeart rate averaged 81, above your usual 68 - 6:30 PM+6
Dinner with family
With Sam, Maya and Jo - 9:30 PM+4
Reading
Page 212 of 340
Syncs with Oura, Pixel Watch and Fitbit (through Google Health), including Fitbit-connected scales. Example day.
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time outsideandyour energy
These are only starting points. Compare meals, energy, sleep, workouts, dreams, books, values, relationships, time and anything else you choose to track. Some connections appear in automatic analyses; others become clear as you explore your own history. A correlation is labeled as one.
A real log, zoomed out
A day
All 1,440 minutes of one Monday, coloured by the part of life they went to.
SleepWorkPersonalFamilyTravel & playMoney & giving
Now yours
Every square is a week. Here are yours.
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A preview of the patterns
Your log notices what you don't.
Patterns show up after a few days of logging, and they're there whenever you look. When something stands out, try a change and see whether the days after are different.
Exercise came to 40 minutes this week. Your usual is about three hours.
Try thisBook two short workouts before work.
Meetings after 4 PM are the most draining hour of your day.
Try thisKeep one afternoon meeting-free and see how the next morning feels.
“Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.”
Attributed to Howard ThurmanRate how each part of the day felt, from −10 to +10. Well Lived ranks your activities from the ones that lift you to the ones that drain you, weighted by the hours behind each.
What matters beyond the hours
Make time for the life you mean to live.
The log shows what happened. Your goals and values give it direction. Keep both close enough to notice when they drift apart.
Goals and priorities
Keep this month in view.
Yearly and quarterly goals, monthly priorities and longer-term bucket list ideas live beside your actual days.
Explore goals Values and balanceSee if your days match your values.
Follow your values and sense of balance over time, and see where the hours actually went.
Explore reflectionOptional trackers also include people, dreams and private intimacy.
How it works
A minute to log. A lifetime of patterns.
Log it your way
Say it, type it or tap it. Log as it happens, every few hours, or once at night, and note how each part felt if you like.
See the pattern
Where the hours went, by area of life. What lifted you and what drained you. Your sleep and heart rate beside it, if you wear a ring or watch. It's there whenever you look.
Change what you want to
Well Lived suggests changes from your own data, any day you look, and a weekly review can gather them up. Try one, and the days after show whether it helped.
Your data is yours. No ads, no selling. Export everything, delete everything.
Why I built it
I've been writing my days down since I was a kid.
In junior high, a health class asked me to write down everything I ate for a week. I was surprised by the candy and the little things I barely noticed. Having to log them made me pause before eating them. I've found the same with time: an hour spent scrolling is harder to ignore when I know I'll write it down.
That awareness helped me choose how to spend larger stretches of life. From 2008 to 2019 my family travelled through 45 countries. My team ran the software company I had started, and I kept my own work to a few hours a week so I could spend the years when my kids were young with them. Tim Ferriss wrote about how I spent my time in 2013.
I've tracked my time in one form or another the whole way. Since December 2017, I've logged every minute of every day in a series of complicated spreadsheets. It was tedious, and worth it for what I learned. The lifetime grid above is mine.
Building Well Lived made logging far faster and the insights richer and more connected: time, energy, sleep, meals and people in one place. I now track more than I ever did, and more accurately.
Live well and enjoy life now. — Brandon Pearce
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”