Discussing ideas around 5-minute journal

1. 5Minute Journal
John Caddell
New Tech Meetup of Central PA
7 May 2012

2. Core issue:
• No time to process moment to moment or even
day to day activities

3. Implication:

4. Analytics can help raise our awareness

5. Tools make activity & patterns visible
Physical activity Emotional activity
measurements: measurements:
• Distance • Accomplishments
• Time • Mistakes
• Weight • Gripes
• Tools – stopwatch, • Tool – journaling,
pedometer narratives

6. Journaling is a way to emotional
wellness
• “Journaling is mindfulness of thoughts &
emotions”

7. Journaling + Analytics
• Marking ongoing work progress
• Finding patterns in mistakes & areas for
improvement
• Quicker perspective on emotional events
• Check & balance on happiness assessment

8. Why I’m Passionate About This
• Workplace demands self-improvement
• Self-improvement requires self-knowledge
• Job satisfaction requires regular, small
progress (“small wins”)
• Marking progress in the workplace requires a
daily log of activities

9. 5Minute Journal
• Web app – mobile-accessible
• Prototype site up
• 60 users – 10 active
• Also experimenting on myself
• DEMO

10. Next steps
• Develop initial product
– Two tines of a fork
• Assessment/measurement tool for consulting
• Consumer product
– More beautiful front-end; integrated, complete
site
– Integrated analytics on the back end
• Personal analytics
• General summary analytics
– Need a technical partner