(Previously:August, September, October, November, December, January, February home screens)
I’m very nearly at a home screen setup that doesn’t change at all month on month.
The only change from February has been changing the Shortcuts widgets on the home screen from two 1×1 widgets to a single 2×2 widget. That means instead of two Shortcuts, I have four.
The two new Shortcuts are water consumption and meditation logs.
As temperatures rise in the tropics here, I’m prone to headaches from even slight dehydration – these are different from my migraines. We have discussed water tracking via the Fitbit app earlier, but I’m taking a break from wearing a device constantly on my wrist, and I want an alternative way to track my water habits – so this shortcut simply brings up a pre-set list of water levels for me to tap, and then logs it to a comma-separated file in iCloud Drive along with the timestamp. So I can track not just my daily water consumption levels but also the number of drinks and their time.
The other is my meditation log. Years ago, I had a pretty solid meditation routine. It helped me during some very challenging years dealing with mental health issues. While I’m much healthier now I’d like to get back to a daily twenty-to-thirty minute meditation practice. This Shortcut, which I have had a long time but rarely used, is to be invoked after I have completed the meditation session. It presents a prompt for how long I meditated, and then a pre-set list from 0 to 3 to log (subjective) quality, zero being no meditative state at all. So far I’m usually at a one. This is logged to another comma-separated value file with the timestamp. Much like water, I can not just plot my meditation streak, but also its quality, number per day and the time of day I typically meditate. The infrastructure exists, now to execute.
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