✦
Experiments

Life auditWhere did the last year
actually go?

Most life-audit exercises are about the present: score each area, notice the low ones, resolve to improve. This one looks backwards instead, because what you actually did over twelve months is a far better description of your priorities than what you say they are — and the gap between the two is the only genuinely useful thing an audit produces.

Free, no sign-up. Worked out in your browser, nothing sent anywhere, and the result imports into EvyOS.

The year, by area

What actually happened, and how much you would say the area matters.

AreaWhat actually happenedAttention it gotHow much it matters
55
55
55
55
55
55
55
Roughly aligned
attention went about where you say it should
Healthgot 5 · matters 5
Workgot 5 · matters 5
Moneygot 5 · matters 5
Close relationshipsgot 5 · matters 5
Learninggot 5 · matters 5
Rest and playgot 5 · matters 5
Homegot 5 · matters 5

The year, as evidence

What you wrote down, ordered by how far attention and importance diverged.

  • HealthalignedNothing written down.
  • WorkalignedNothing written down.
  • MoneyalignedNothing written down.
  • Close relationshipsalignedNothing written down.
  • LearningalignedNothing written down.
  • Rest and playalignedNothing written down.
  • HomealignedNothing written down.

Your attention went roughly where you say it should

That is rarer than it sounds and it is the actual definition of a well-spent year. It does not mean every area was good; it means nothing important was quietly starved.

Almost everything is aligned

Either you had an unusually deliberate year, or the two columns were filled in with an eye on each other. Try re-scoring attention from the evidence column alone.

Nothing named as worth mentioning

Worth sitting with for a moment before concluding there was nothing. Twelve months is long, and the recall problem is usually the issue rather than the year.

This result contains something worth keeping.

Send it to EvyOS →

Nothing has left this device. The link carries the result in the part of a URL browsers never send to a server, and you will see exactly what it is going to create before anything is saved.

Share this

Only the link and that one line are shared. Nothing you typed goes with it.

✦ How to use it

Three things that make it work.

1
Estimate, do not agonise

Roughly right is enough. Being out by a third does not change the finding.

2
Answer for the last twelve months

Not your best year and not your intentions. The year that actually happened.

3
Read the gaps, not the scores

Where the evidence and the stated priority disagree is the whole point of doing this.

So the questions are about evidence. Not how satisfied you are with your health, but how many times you exercised. Not whether relationships matter, but how many close friends you actually saw. The numbers are approximate and that is fine; being out by a third does not change what they tell you.

The output is a comparison between where your time and attention went and where you say you wanted them to go. It is uncomfortable in a specific and useful way.

✦ The limit

An answer is not a record.

This works something out and then forgets it. It cannot tell you whether the number moved, because it has no memory of the last time you ran it and no idea what you did in between. Every calculator on the internet has that limit, and if it has never bothered you then this one is yours for free for good.

EvyOS is the same structure with the work recorded against it. Send the result across and it becomes real goals, tasks or habits with their dates — then the next answer is computed from what actually happened rather than from what you remember typing.

Start free →Everything else
✦ Questions

Life audit, answered.

The dashboard scores where things are now; this looks at what the last twelve months actually contained. What you did over a year describes your priorities far better than what you say they are, and the gap between the two is the only genuinely useful thing an audit produces.
Use your calendar, your photos and your bank statement — that is what most people's memory of a year is reconstructed from anyway. Being approximate is fine; being out by a third does not change what the numbers tell you.
Annually, and not necessarily in January. A birthday or the end of a work year often works better, because the answers are less contaminated by everybody else's resolutions.
That is the sharpest finding here. An area you rated as mattering, where you cannot name a single thing that happened in twelve months, did not have a bad year — it had no year, and that is usually news.
One or two, dated, for the areas with the biggest gaps. Eight resolutions is a mood; two with dates is a plan, which is why only the top two come across when you send it to EvyOS.

Keep the answer.
And the record of doing it.

Goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills in one system, with the work logged against what it belonged to.

Start for free →