If you already know about these annual reports, scroll down to read about the new data-collecting web-site!

This may be old news to you, but as I was reviving my English major spirit by reading Penguin’s Blog (Penguin the book company), I learned about graphic designer Nicholas Felton’s personal “Annual Reports.” I became so obsessed, that I had to post about them here.

Felton records everything from how much he drinks and walks to where he eats to how many books he reads. At the end of the year, he compiles this data in an amazingly designed “Annual Report” (check them out on his web-page).

You can also order a printed copy of his reports, but they’re all sold out (that’s why everyday after January 1 I’ll probably check his web-page to be sure I get a copy!). (Is it weird that not only I, but other people as well, want the “Annual Report” of some man we don’t even know?)

I became so obsessed with the idea of graphs, data, and a corporate-like personal report, that I started recording my past year (which I decided, for various reasons, was July 9 to July 9). Luckily, I compiled and saved 169 lists over the past year (I’m an obsessive list-writer), so I have a lot of data. But I didn’t know how I was ever going to make such pretty graphs.

The Web-Site!

That’s why I’m so excited that is that Felton is creating a web-site, called daytum.com, just for the purpose of beautiful data-collection. It’s currently open by invite-only in beta, and I’m hoping, hoping, hoping someone will let me in!

(A couple of blogs lately have also mentioned mycrocosm, another resource for collecting and graphing daily life-data. It looks cool, but I do love that daytum is designed by Felton!)

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