Remembering and sharing · Chapter 12
Looking back and statistics
A single day is soon forgotten, a whole week even more so. Looking back lays a past week or month out in front of you, with the covers of your days, your values and the best day in it. The statistics reach further back. nexdiary works out both from your own pages only, and nobody else sees them.
Where to find it
At the start of the week it comes to you. From Monday to Wednesday a strip called “Looking back” sits at the top of “Today” with the small covers of last week; from the 1st to the 3rd of a month there is one for last month instead. It only appears when you wrote at least one page in that time. Tap it to open the look back. The small X (“Hide the look back”) puts it away for that week or month, and only on the device where you tap it.
At any other time, go through “Statistics”. The card “Looking back” there has two buttons, “Last week” and “Last month”.
Looking at a week or a month
- Choose the period
Top right, switch between “Week” and “Month”. The arrows next to it (“Earlier” and “Later”) page back to earlier periods, as far as the week that holds your first page. The current week and month join only once they are over.
- Read the pictures
A week shows as a strip of seven covers from Monday to Sunday, each with the title of its day. Where you wrote nothing, it says “left free”. A month becomes a collage in a calendar. Tap a picture to open the day.
- The numbers below
Four tiles tell you on how many days you wrote, where your first value stood on average (mood, out of the box) and where it stood the week or month before, and how many words and photos there were. A line shows the value day by day.
- Best day and what it was about
The card “Best day of the week” (for a month “Best day of the month”) leads to the day with the highest value. “What it was about” names the five tags that came up most often.
The week in a few sentences
If your operator has set up an AI and you have not switched it off in your account, the card “The week in a few sentences” (for a month “The month in a few sentences”) sits below the look back. Pressing “Sum it up” sends the pages of that period to the AI: weekday, day of the month, title and text. Photos, values, tags and notes stay behind. What comes back is a few sentences, “From your pages, nothing made up.” The card tells you beforehand where the pages go, or that a local model on your own server does the writing.
The summary is only shown and never stored anywhere. If you open the look back again later, you press the button again.
The statistics
You find “Statistics” in the sidebar, on a phone in the bar at the bottom. At the top are four tiles: “Streak”, “Longest streak”, the days of this year and “Words”, with about how many a day. What the streak counts is in the chapter Streak. Below come these cards:
| Card | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Your half year | one square for each day of the last 26 weeks; the darker, the higher your value |
| … over time | dots for single days, the line is the average over seven days; 30, 90 or 180 days, any value that is switched on |
| Your weekdays | your value on average for each weekday, and on which it is highest |
| What goes together | comparisons in sentences, say your mood at the weekend and on weekdays, or on days tagged #family and days without it |
| Most used tags | the eight tags you give most often |
| Writing | how many pages were written out with the AI, written yourself, have photos, or were shared with the family |
| My best and my worst day | by your value, for 30 days, one year or all time |
| One year ago today | leads to the day exactly one year back |
“What goes together” needs at least five days on each side of a comparison, and it is honest about it: “Together does not mean because. It only shows what often happens together for you.”
Good to knowLooking back and the statistics work with your first value that is switched on. If you would rather that were sleep than mood, move it to the top under “My account”, “Writing”, card “My values”, with “Move up”. How values work is in the chapter Values.