No data, human!

[spyderella]

Data-entry fields compel me to enter data. Accurate data, especially.

Between my CoolRunning log's distances and durations, LibraryThing's date-acquired, date-started, and date-completed, Weight Watchers' points tracking, LJ's tags, my special-purpose notebooks, budget tracking, timesheet logging... I become frozen into inaction.

I mean, I'm

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[sleepingjpb]

I can totally relate to this. I am super-pathological about the Play Count thing on the iPod, and now am doing a crazy thing with all the films I've watched recently. LibraryThing is a whole other issue.

[piratelemur]

Hee! I don't identify with that at all. Nope. I've never purposely put down something I was enjoying knitting to work on something else so that their start/finish dates would look better on paper. Not me.

I'm back on the road again for running this weekend. After a month or two of icy sidewalks, I'm COMPLETELY stoked.

[jipp]

I kept track, in a little notebook, of (almost) every book I read between 1990 and 2004. It would be nice to get all that onto the computer. It would be even nicer to catch up to the current day, and add the stuff from before 90.

For entering stuff you need an ISBN scanner. By default, the start date should be the first date it's scanned, and the finish date should be the second.
...I seem to be on a UI improvement kick recently. I've got a half written blog about UIs lying around somewhere. I should whip it into shape and post it.

[unrealfred]

>This run was just for me.

They probably should all be, even if you do keep a log of the distance you run. Don't let data entry become the reason you have the data in the first place.