QUANTIFIED SELF REPORT 2025
- I spent a lot more time with my family and friends
- I spent much more time on BASE because of my core renovation.
- I read fewer books but more articles and blog posts.
- I walked less but trained twice as much, but I ran only once and hit the gym fewer times.
- I burned 70kcal less per day on average, gained 2kg (half of it muscle)
- I travelled less and watched more TV.
- I spent a lot less time writing essays but a lot more time writing my book Scale-Smart.
MINDSelf-Mastery. Wisdom. Enlightenment.
💭 Contemplation 💭
- 0 analog journal entries composed
- 335 digital journal entries composed (Obsidian) (+6)
🧘 Mindfulness 🧘
- 44 sessions (+10) of meditation completed (Calm)
- 6,5 hours (±0) of meditation practiced in total (HealthView)
- 7 min (+2) session average for meditation (AppleHealth)
📚️ EDU & KNOWLEDGE 📚️
- 5.663 pages (-3.133) read across 15 books (-15) (GoodReads)
- Listened for 13h 18min and finished 6 audiobooks (Audible)
- 47 articles/blogs/essays (-5) read (Readwise Reader)
- 35 hours (+35) listened across 5 podcasts (+5) (PocketCasts)
- 202 hours (+10) spent on PKB/Reading/Education (Timing)
- 1 (±0) high-quality online course completed
💡 Personal Knowledge & Task Management 💡
- 2.032 markdown notes (-200) created in Obsidian (Obsidian)
- 298 hours (-264) spent in Obsidian, 9% (-10) of my digital time (Timing)
- 2,911 digital highlights (-2906) taken (Readwise)
BODYHeath. Fitness. Mobility. Balance.
🦠 IMMUNE SYSTEM 🦠
0 sick days (-6) needed
🧍 Standing 🧍
- 12 stand hours (-1) per day (Watch, Apple Health)
- 133 (+7) stand minutes per day (Watch, Apple Health)
🏃 Cardio 🏃
- 2.430.170 steps (-834.210) taken (StepsApp)
- 6.658 steps (-2.261) per day on average (StepsApp)
- 82 (-295) walks taken (Watch, Apple Health)
- 24 (+23) runs (38,8km) completed (Apple Fitness, Fitness Stats)
- 19 (+19) elliptical workouts (7h) completed (Apple Fitness, Fitness Stats)
- 30,36 (+0,4) VO2Max average within 28,7-31,2 (Watch, HealthView)
🏋️ Strength Training 🏋️
- 277 hours (-126) of exercise in total (Fitness Stats)
- 120 (+53) strength workouts (HIIT+Functional+Traditional) completed (AppleHealth)
🛌🏻 Sleep & Rejuvenation 🛌🏻
- 7h20 (+10min) asleep on average (HealthView)
- 47-111 bpm heart rate asleep on average (Watch)
% Body Composition %
- +2kg body weight (HealthMate, Withings)
- ±0 BMI points (HealthMate, Withings)
- +0,8% body fat (HealthMate, Withings)
- -0,8% muscle mass (HealthMate, Withings)
- ±0% body water (HealthMate, Withings)
- ±0% bone mass (HealthMate, Withings)
🖤 Heart 🖤
- 68 bpm (+1) resting average (Watch, HealthView)
- 97-108 bpm walking average (Watch, HealthView)
- 38 ms (-1) HRV average (Watch)
- 27 bpm (-6) cardio recovery (Watch, Apple Health)
🍙 Nutrition 🍙
- ? liters of fluids per day (WaterMinder)
- ? of fluids from pure water (WaterMinder)
- ? mg caffeine consumed per day (CaffeineApp)
- 0 hours (±0) fasted (Zero)
HANDSInvest in myself > savings. 80% maker schedule.
🎯 Productivity 🎯
- ? hours in Flow (Focus@Will)
- ? focus sessions completed (Focus@Will)
- 97% (+1) Productivity Score (Timing, new)
- 5.421 hours (+1242) digital time, logged automatically (Timing)
- 998 hours spent (+534) on BASE work & projects (Timing)
- 209 hours spent (-100) on MIND work & projects (Timing)
- 702 hours spent (+24) on BODY work & projects (Timing)
- 1019 hours spent (+342) on SOUL work & projects (Timing)
- 1555 hours spent (+387) on HANDS work & projects (Timing)
- 585 hours spent (+110) on SPIRIT work & projects (Timing)
- 133 hours spent (-106) on VOICE work & projects (Timing)
- 25 hours (-7) spent on Email (Timing)
👨🏻💻 Coding 👨🏻💻
- 202 hours (+106) in Xcode, 6% (+3) of my digital time (Timing)
- 24 hours (+16) in Tower, 0% (±0) of my digital time (Timing)
- 9 hours (+5) in Terminal applications, 0% (±0) of my digital time (Timing)
- 0 iOS apps (±0) released (Apple AppStore)
- 2 (-2) books & courses on Software Engineering consumed (Obsidian)
💰️ Finances 💰️
- +40% (-20) change in net worth (YNAB)
- 6.8% (±6.8%) pay raise
- 560€ (-615) earned online (Stripe, Wise)
SPIRITDreams. Games. Vagabonding.
🎒 Vagabonding 🎒
- 0 new places (-9) visited
- 0 new countries (-1) visited
- 0 long vacations (-2) taken
- 0 (-4) foreign countries visited
📺️ Entertainment 📺️
- 73 (-18) movies watched (Trakt.tv)
- 80? hours of 49 movies (-34) watched (Trakt.tv)
- 541 episodes (+124) of TV shows watched (Trakt.tv)
- 435? hours of 79 (+39) TV shows watched (Trakt.tv)
- Most watched movie genres were Drama, Murder, Supernatural
New Highest Rated Movies:
- Thunderbolts* (8 ♡)
- The Gorge (8 ♡)
- Fantastic 4 (7 ♡)
- Superman (7 ♡)
- Bring Her Back (7 ♡)
New Highest Rated TV Shows:
- Stranger Things (8 ♡)
- Glow (8 ♡)
- The White Lotus (8 ♡)
- Invincible (8 ♡)
- Dark (7 ♡)
- Adolescence (7 ♡)
- Dudes (7 ♡)
- Most watched TV show genres were Drama, Murder, Supernatural
🧸 New Tools, Toys & Gadgets 🧸
VOICEExploration. Experiment. Execution.
🥼 PERSONAL SCIENCE 🥼
- TBD Self-Experiments (0) conducted (Obsidian)
- 1 Challenge (+1) completed (Obsidian)
🎨 Life Design 🎨
- 109 hours (-11) spent on reviews & planning sessions (Timing)
✍️ Content Creation ✍️
- 19 essays (-25) published (Substack)
- 148 hours (-343) of digital time logged for Fractal Productivity (Timing)
- 0 hours (-9) digital time logged for Ubermind
- 2 (-2) mastermind sessions held
👥 Social Following 👥
- 223 Newsletter subscribers (-117) gained (+154 FP, +69 Ubermind)
Tracking Tools mentioned in the reports above
Watch— A smartwatch to measure your steps, heart rate, HRV, VO2max, and more (350+€+)
Calm— A sleep, meditation, and relaxation app for web and iOS (300+€ for lifetime sub)
CaffeineApp — An iOS caffeine tracker that visually shows when you reach sleep readiness. (4.49€ single-purchase)
DayOne— A journal app for iOS and macOS (free)
Dreem 2 — A sleep-tracking headband that measures brain waves (not commercially availalable anymore)
Evernote— An old-school note-taking tool available on all platforms (free)
Focus@Will — Scientifically optimized focus music including a simple productivity tracker (150€ lifetime sub)
Goodreads— A social network for maintaining a reading list and tracking your reading progress (free)
LifeCycle— A location tracking app on iOS to determine where you spend your time (99 cents / year)
Last.fm – A scrobbling service for Spotify to determine (free)
Nike Run Club — A tracking app for cardio workouts by Nike Inc. (free)
Nike Training Club — A tracking app for body workouts at home by Nike Inc. (free)
Obsidian—A markdown based note taking software (free)
Pocket Casts — An iOS podcast player with basic stats about listening time (free)
RescueTime — A service that automatically tracks digital activity e.g. how many hours spend on Email (80€ / year)
Readwise.io — A service that allows to import and review book article highlights. (4,99€ per month)
StepsApp — A visually appealing pedometer (step counter) for iOS (free)
Todoist — A task management app available on all platforms (free)
Tempo— A iOS app for run analyitics (free)
Trakt.tv— A scrobbling service for video platforms like Netflix to calculate stats about your watch history (free)
Withings HealthView — An iOS app that lets you view your Apple Health data in a nicer and more flexible form
Withing tracking devices — Tracking hardware (I am using their scale and bp monitor)
WaterMinder — A fluid tracking app for iOS and macOS with nice UX and iCloud sync (5.49€)
YNAB — A budgeting software to keep your finances controlled (80€ per year)
Zenly — A social location tracking app for discovering the world together with friends (free)
Zero — An iOS fasting app for tracking fasts of any kind (free)