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List of Reporter app questions

So in late August I purchased the Reporter app conceived of by Nicholas Felton, the guy responsible for those awesome Annual Reports visualising a year's worth of personal data from Felton's own life. The idea of the app is super appealing to me, not least because it promises to illuminate aspects of my life I might not otherwise be conscious of. Additionally, though, I just like collecting things. I mean, this whole website is a collection of lists, which are in themselves collections of things.

How it works, basically, is that several times during the day, as well as just after you wake up, and just before you go to bed, the app buzzes you, asking you a list of questions, which you answer honestly. Over time, these answers accumulate to form a dataset, which you may analyse to figure things out about yourself, or plot into cool looking charts or diagrams or whatever. The app itself comes with a list of preset questions, but you're free to customise them, which I have done. This page is basically a list of all the questions I have the app asking me, sorted according to when those questions appear. Questions marked with a * get asked on more than one type of occasion.

Questions I get asked upon waking up:

What time did you wake up this morning?
How did you sleep last night?
What did you dream about last night?
Is your nose acting up?*
How stressed are you?*
Rate your mood from on a scale from 1 to 7.*
Are you looking forward to the rest of today?*

Questions I get asked during the day:

Is this a random report?
What are you thinking about now?
What are you doing?
Are you in front of a screen?
Are you working?
Are you procrastinating?
Is this quality time?
If you had to stop whatever you were doing to work instead, how easy would it be for you to convince yourself to do this?*
How are you feeling?*
Rate your mood from on a scale from 1 to 7.*
How stressed are you?*
How alert are you?*
Is your nose acting up?*
Where are you?*
Who have you interacted with in the last half hour?
Are you looking forward to the rest of today?*

Questions I get asked before I go to bed:

How are you feeling?*
Rate your mood from on a scale from 1 to 7.*
Is your nose acting up?*
How stressed are you?*
How alert are you?*
If you had to stop whatever you were doing to work instead, how easy would it be for you to convince yourself to do this?*
How satisfied are you with today's level of productivity?
Where are you?*
What time did you have your last coffee/tea?
How many cups of tea did you drink today?
How many cups of coffee did you drink today?
What caffeinated beverage(s) did you have today, if any?
What did you wear today?
What unnecessary expenditure did you make today?
Are you sick?
What did you listen to today?
What modes of transport did you use today?
What did you do today?
Where did you go today?
Did you write in your journal today?
What kinds of remote communication did you use today?
Are you looking forward to tomorrow?
What time are you going to bed?

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