I'm doing a tiny experiment: I will do a Day Review for 18 weekdays over the period Mon April 7 to Wed April 30, the last 4 weeks of the month (weeks 15–18). I will also do 3 Week Reviews during that time using a similar approach.

I'm also publishing a separate page for each Day Review, starting with day 1. Links to all trial results for each day are included in the experiment pact blog post.

My Day Review template has a common structure with two major sections for Plus Minus Next, including a summary highlight, and Last Light with thoughts, questions, and actions.

2025-04-10 Review

This is the day review for the day note on Thursday, April 10.

View reviews for related time periods:

• Prev: Day Review 3 (Apr 9)
• Next: Day Review 5 (Apr 11)

Summary

Reflect on what happened today using Plus Minus Next.

Highlight

Identify day summary for Week Review.

• Revisited Day Reviews and updated template with changes.

Plus ➕

What went well?

• Ness Labs: Interesting session on Neurodiversity in Mindfulness—learned more about each and together.
• LYT: Exploring the Analog vs Digital Conundrum session was nice overview on notemaking techniques.
• Making incremental progress on refining my Day Review with each trial, and updated corresponding template.

Minus －

What didn't go so well?

• Redundant to include meals as Plus items (already in Log).
• Postponed morning meditation until late afternoon, but still did it.
• Didn't post Day Review 3 results in community or website right away (not until the weekend).

Next →

What will I focus on next? Keep this high-level, use Actions for details.

• Revisit Log to develop Day Review. Focus on details in Log and summaries in Review.
• Update Day Review template to incorporate Last Light improvements.

Last Light

Capture thoughts about today.

Thoughts

What do I think and feel about today's activities? Did I focus on my intentions, explore curiosity, discover, learn, and grow?

• It seems to work better when I limit Plus Minus Next sections to 3 bullet list items; some days, it has tended to have too many, and that dilutes the purpose of the Day Review (details belong in my Log, not Plus Minus Next summary).
• I'm still not using my Curiosity Log consistently beyond the morning, which makes it harder for my Day Review later.
• It's interesting to see the transitions from one Day Review to the next, and having them will make my Week Review much easier.

Questions

Any questions for research or exploration?

• Would it be better to have Last Light first in Day Review, with thoughts, questions, and actions... and then follow with Plus Minus Next as summary?
• Should I include a Preview section under Last Light to identify focus effort, actions, and events to prime tomorrow's Day Plan?
• Maybe I could use separate notes for each week (or sections in Week Review) for Thoughts, Questions, and Actions, rather than including them under Last Light for each Day Review.

Actions

What can I do next?

• Develop shortcut to capture meal photo for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack for Curiosity Log, along with recipe link and image.
• Evaluate techniques to capture diabetes health data via prompting scripts into the Day Log.
• Determine how summarize metadata (and related statistics) from Day Log metrics for meals, glucose, carbs, insulin, sleep, etc.