It’s the most fantastic time of 12 months — ’tis the season to arrange a brand new studying log for a brand new 12 months of studying! Tracking my studying really brings me nice pleasure, and I like taking the time to view my end-of-year studying stats and glean insights a few 12 months in studying, set new targets, and evaluate favourite reads of the 12 months. Tracking my studying in a Sheets-based system makes all of this really easy, and I’m excited to share the 2024 studying log with you all!
You can entry a replica of the studying log which you can edit and make your personal right here. This template is locked, however in case you go to File > Make a replica, it can save you a replica of the template to your personal private drive (and that can guarantee it’s personal and solely you possibly can entry it). From there, you possibly can go away it in Google Drive or obtain it to Excel and make your modifications and begin logging your studying. This 12 months’s appears similar to final 12 months’s — the largest change I made was in including a monitoring column and chart for audiobook readers to trace which audiobook platform they use for studying. Thanks to my fellow Book Riot contributors for that concept — I confess after years of monitoring my studying and listening to audiobooks, I by no means thought of monitoring which audiobook platform I’d use the most, and I’m wanting to see what 2024 yields!
As at all times, you possibly can customise and tweak this log to fit your personal studying wants and your studying life. I’ll be the first to confess that this log is a lot at first. It consists of 5 tabs, numerous charts, and a ton of formulation. Because the formulation could be a bit fussy, and since some knowledge is used throughout tabs, my largest advice is that in case you see a characteristic or a column you don’t care to make use of, conceal it slightly than delete it. I can not assure that every one of the stats will populate accurately in case you delete something!
About the Log
The first tab is a log sheet the place you possibly can log your studying knowledge. This has the important data like title, writer, web page rely or audiobook size, and variety monitoring statistics. The second tab is a Stats sheet that compiles all of the knowledge right into a abstract of numbers. The third tab is filled with charts, so you possibly can see this knowledge in a visible format (my visual-leaning self loves this!). The fourth tab is dedicated to Book Riot’s Read Harder problem, and there’s a cool integration to trace your progress routinely with minimal work in your half. The fifth and closing tab is a e-book spending log. Ignore this in case you don’t wish to take into consideration how a lot cash you spend on books every year! Some folks discover it useful, and I even added a characteristic that permits you to observe what number of of the books you purchase you truly learn in the identical 12 months (do with this what you’ll!).
Editing the Log
Like I stated above, if you wish to go easy, then conceal slightly than delete something! But this log might be actually customizable — relying in your confidence utilizing Google Sheets, you possibly can change the colours, font, and look of the log. You can conceal what you don’t wish to use for a easy, streamlined log, or you possibly can edit dropdown menus to tailor it to your studying life. If you’re feeling adventurous, you possibly can normally see what every cell does by keeping track of the formulation bar. But in case you’re unsure about modifying by yourself, I’ve created a video walkthrough under the place I’m going by means of how one can use, modify, and alter up the log! Give it a watch!
Happy studying!
Tracking my studying is considered one of my favourite studying adjoining hobbies. I began to take action as a result of I wished to maintain observe of titles and after I learn sure books, after which I began monitoring stats and important particulars with the intention to meet studying targets — corresponding to studying extra diversely, or increasing into totally different genres. As I enter into my fifteenth 12 months of monitoring my studying and my eighth 12 months monitoring my studying with stats, I’ve discovered that I’m much less centered on numbers and enchancment, and extra about enjoyment. My life is hectic, I don’t learn as many books as I did 10 years in the past, nevertheless it’s good to get to the finish of the 12 months and see an enormous listing of books I did learn and really feel proud about my studying life. It’s additionally enjoyable to scroll again by means of years previous and see what caught my consideration. (I’m additionally now sufficiently old that I depend on it to remind me of titles, and extra embarrassingly, whether or not or not I learn and loved a e-book!) I hope nevertheless you employ it, you’ve a fruitful, bookish 2024!
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