I spent some time looking at Daytum the other day. On the Daytum website, it states:

Daytum can help you count and communicate the most important statistics in your life.

The idea for Daytum came out of Nicholas Feltron’s annual reports, where he displays statistics about his personal life.

Nicholas was asked on, interaction design, why is it important that people have access to visualization and tracking tools?

One of the most obvious discoveries about my Annual Reports has been that people would love this kind of documentation of their own lives. The barriers to this are two-fold: the data-logging of daily habits is difficult and time-consuming; and communicating the data is a challenge. I believe that if we can reduce the burden of recording the data and even add a social stimulus, then remove all obstacles to designing and sharing the results, this type of personal reporting may gain some popularity.

As someone who works with organizations trying to analyze what is happening within their businesses, what is true at the individual level is also true at the organization. Obtaining and then displaying the right measures is quite challenging.

I wanted to see how people were using Daytum, so I went to Flickr and searched on Daytum. Here are some of the results that I found. I’d love to hear your observations.

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