This month I've started journaling every day. I'm looking forward to doing some analysis on the journal once I have enough data. I'm intending to do sentiment analysis to plot my mood over time and try to correlate that to words written and daily goals accomplished.

One thing I didn't really get from Wolfram's analysis is how this data drives decisions. It's neat to look at, I read the section on email and skimmed the rest, but I don't see how consequential it is. I hope to use my analysis to decide whether journaling is improving my mood and whether I should focus more or less on goals. In November I'm also going to start marking approximate exercise time and grade myself 1-5 on diet. If sentiment analysis plots work, that can help me dial in exercise and eating habits. That's the idea any way.

I'm tempted to wear a fitness tracker, that would give more data and could automate data collection for steps, exercise, and sleep - but I find the wrist trackers uncomfortable to wear.