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Life Dashboard
One private page for how your life is going: eight areas scored from 1 to 10, a check-in on energy and mood that takes under a minute, three habits and a weekly review. Week-over-week changes show what is moving.
- 8 life areas
- Under a minute a day
- Free, no account
How it works
Ten minutes to set up, then a minute a day and a few minutes at the end of the week.
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Score the eight areas
Give health, focus, money, relationships and the rest a number from 1 to 10. Scores stay where you leave them, so after the first day you only touch the ones that moved.
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Check in each day
Tap your energy and your mood from 1 to 5 and log the day. Add the one thing the day is for, its smallest version, and the trap to avoid, if you want them. Tick the habits you did.
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Review the week
Answer five short questions, ending with one focus for next week, which waits at the top of the next review. The lowest area becomes the week's leverage.
Six tiles, one screen
On a laptop or a wide monitor the whole dashboard fits in the window, with no scrolling. On a phone the tiles stack.
- TodayThe one-minute check-in
Energy and mood as two rows of large dots, three optional lines, and a Log button. Logging keeps your streak.
- Domain compassEight areas, this week and last
A radar of the eight scores with last week's shape dashed behind it. Each row has a 28-day sparkline and its change on the week before.
- Energy & moodTwo weeks, then twelve
Seven-day averages with their change on last week, a 14-day line of both, and a grid of the last twelve weeks coloured by mood.
- Active habitsThree habits, seven days
Tick any of the last seven days, so a day you forgot to log is not lost. Daily habits count a streak; weekly ones count against a target.
- Weekly reviewFive questions
What gave you energy, what drained you, what you avoided, what mattered, and one focus for next week. Step back to read earlier weeks.
- This week's leverageYour lowest area, made small
One book, one tool and one specific action for the area you scored lowest, so the review turns into something to do.
The eight areas
Each one comes with a small action to try, a book from the library and a tool on this site. When an area is your lowest, these are what the dashboard suggests.
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Health & energy
Lock a fixed wake time for seven days.
- Read
- Outlive
- Use
- Burnout & Energy Audit
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Focus & work
Protect one 60-minute block of deep work tomorrow.
- Read
- Deep Work
- Use
- Time Audit
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Money
List every recurring charge and circle two to cancel.
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Relationships
Have one 15-minute repair conversation this week.
- Read
- Attached
- Use
- Relationship Check-in
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Emotional stability
Two minutes of breathing before the first email.
- Read
- 10% Happier
- Use
- Habit Garden
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Meaning & purpose
Cancel one low-value commitment this week.
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Learning & growth
Pick one identity-based habit and run it once today.
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Environment
Redesign one surface around the next good action.
The compass is a version of the Wheel of Life, which Paul J. Meyer's Success Motivation Institute used from the 1960s: eight areas of a life, each scored from 1 to 10. The two-tap daily check-in and the grid of days coloured by mood follow mood trackers such as Daylio and Exist.
See it with four weeks of data
The example opens the dashboard with made-up check-ins, scores, habits and a review, so you can see the trends before you have any. Nothing in it is saved, and your own dashboard is untouched.
Questions
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What is the Life Dashboard?
One private page that holds four things you would otherwise keep in four places. A compass of eight life areas scored from 1 to 10, a daily check-in of energy and mood, up to three habits you are practising, and a weekly review. The area you score lowest becomes the week's leverage, with one book, one tool and one small action for it.
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How long does the daily check-in take?
Under a minute. Tap your energy and your mood from 1 to 5, write the one thing you want from the day if you like, and log it. Scores on the compass stay where you left them, so you only touch the areas that moved.
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How are the week-over-week changes worked out?
Each area keeps the score you last gave it, day by day. The change shown next to an area is its average over the last seven days against the seven days before, and last week's shape is drawn as a dashed outline behind this week's on the compass. Energy and mood are compared the same way, from the days you checked in.
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Where is my data saved?
In this browser's local storage, after every change, so a reload keeps it. If you are signed in, it is also saved to your HourLife account, so it opens on your other devices, and you can delete it there in Settings. Signed out, nothing is sent to HourLife or anyone else. Clearing your browser's site data removes it, so download a backup file from the Export menu now and then. The same menu restores a backup, which also moves the dashboard to another browser without an account.
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Can I try it before I start my own?
Yes. The example opens the dashboard with four weeks of made-up check-ins, scores and habits. Nothing in the example is saved, and your own dashboard is untouched.
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Why only three habits?
Three is enough to practise and few enough to remember. Each habit shows the last seven days, and you can tick any of them, so a day you forgot to log is not a broken streak. Daily and weekday habits count a streak; three-times-a-week and weekly habits count this week's total against the target.
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Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The tiles stack into one column and every score and dot is a full-size tap target. On a wide screen the whole dashboard fits on one page, so you can read the week at a glance.
Related tools and books
See the week before it is over
The dashboard is saved in this browser as you go. Signed in, it is also kept in your account, so it opens on your other devices; signed out, nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
Keep this going in the app.
HourLife turns these ideas into a daily system — goals, habits, focus, and reflection in one private place.
