I run a small suite of tools to track three things:
- What I eat
- How I spend my time
- How I’m feeling
Here’s the actual setup for each.
What I eat: MacroFactor + Claude #
I log everything in MacroFactor. For anything I can weigh or that has known values, that’s the entire workflow.
For dishes I can’t measure (eating out, someone else cooked, no scale in sight), I snap a photo and have Claude estimate the macros, then log the result in MacroFactor. I keep a saved project with these instructions:
Estimate macros for the meal in this photo. Do your best to estimate serving size and weight
based off of relative perspective and scale. I'll add text context if the photo is ambiguous.
Always respond in exactly this format, no preamble:
[meal name]
Cals: X | P: Xg | F: Xg | C: Xg
Confidence: low/med/high
Notes: [1 sentence on assumptions or what would change the estimate most when the confidence is low]
If I give text context (portion size, ingredients), weight it over visual estimation.
How I spend my time: TimeLines Pro + iOS Shortcuts #
I pay for TimeLines Pro and wire it up with iOS Shortcuts so most of the tracking happens automatically.
- Time-waster apps trigger a timer on their own. Opening Instagram, Netflix, or YouTube starts a clock under “Entertainment.” Books and the Bible app fall under “Reading.”
- Apple Watch syncs exercise. Any workout the watch records flows into the “Exercise” category automatically.
- Google Calendar syncs work. Anything I block out as work on my calendar gets tracked directly.
- Apple Health syncs sleep. Sleep gets logged through the Health integration.
The long-term payoff is seeing the trends between how I spend my time and how productive I actually am. Days where I wake up early and drive out to a coffee shop tend to come bundled with a gym session and good time expenditure. Days where I roll out of bed late usually end in low output.
How I’m feeling: Physical Journaling #
A daily journal tracker, on paper.
- It’s a simple writing system to quickly reflect on my daily habits, the major activities of the day, and a final summary of how the day went.
- The whole point was to make it as frictionless as possible. I used to break out a ruler and draw an entire grid system for the habits and sections, but redoing that at the start of every month was a nuisance. Now I just use the grid lines already printed on the paper, and it’s been far easier to stay consistent.