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desfirsit OP t1_j2p0p7j wrote

Data from trends.google.com. I checked which the most googled game (out of a list of over 100) was each month during 2022, and then counted which game was the top game for most months.

As has been the case for most of the time since 2011, Minecraft has been the top game, but now Roblox is creeping in. Elden Ring also made an appearance in 2022.

Youtube video with results each month from 2006

Made in R with the cartography package.

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Costpap t1_j2oycnz wrote

I see. That's quite easier to do when you have a website set up in order to do all of the tracking, in comparison to relying on an Excel spreadsheet, which is best updated on a PC. Your set up makes me wonder what I could do to replicate something like this using a VPS and a subdomain on a domain I have, actually.

As for water consumption, I suppose it'd be a lot more rewarding to implement it into your current workflow for entering all of the data. In my case, I could look into using Apple's Shortcuts to let me have a button that I can press to quickly add data to the Health app, especially since I usually drink water in 500ml increments. I could always have the shortcut ask me as well - but then the whole process would become significantly slower.

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ObsessiveTimekeeper OP t1_j2ouboj wrote

This is definitely something I'm going to try heading into this year. Hopefully, I have similar results to you. Forcing myself to work without as many interruptions might be hard, but having longer stretches of relaxation time at the end of the day will be nice. That along with an actual margin of time before bed where I'm not working my brain and looking at a screen.

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ObsessiveTimekeeper OP t1_j2otlih wrote

I don't always remember, and in those cases, I have a nice little interface that lets me quickly adjust/splice in log items as I remember them.

But as time goes on it's been more ingrained in my brain (feels like I'm forgetting something when I don't update) so I don't forget too often.

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To your point about tracking water consumption, this is something I actually want to start doing this year (along with sugar and other misc counters). I'm probably going to end up adding a counter feature that lets me quickly click a plus/minus button in regular amounts (16 oz, 20 grams).

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Moist-Ad7080 t1_j2oqc9k wrote

I used to spread my working time out like this as well, often working until 1am, then crashing. I thought this was ok at the time.

Now I'm more strict with myself (mostly forced to my relationship commitments) in keeping my work time in one or two big chunks of the day. With rare exceptions, I never work beyond 8pm, so I always have a good chunk of downtime before bed.

I can say since switching to this work pattern my mental health and quality of life has improved significantly. Its much easier to switch off from work and focus on other important life stuff.

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Demikmj t1_j2op017 wrote

I was going to make a joke about switching your adderall for weed in march, but then I don’t know your life. Maybe some shit went down. I hope you had an OK march. 🙃

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Costpap t1_j2olzjw wrote

How do you make sure that you always remember to tap the correct action? I’ve kinda always wanted to do something like this - maybe tracking every hour instead of every minute - but I’ve always been too afraid that I’d miss out on tracking something. For example, I’ve been wanting to keep track of how much water I drink using Apple Health, but consistently forget to add that I’ve drank 500ml or something. I have seen success in tracking habits in the past, but even then, it’s just an Excel spreadsheet with a cell for every day of the year and then numbers, reflecting the kind of action tracked and the amount of times per day, in the adjacent cells. That’s kinda easier on me, since I can update the spreadsheet from once a day to once every 3 days and still successfully recall everything of the top of my head.

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