"You should build something so we can keep track of how much water we drink."

An good idea is nothing but a solution to a problem. Above sentence is the start of this project "zeaLOG". Lets see how the founders of 'zeaLog" responded to this.

From Founders of zeaLOG:

That was it. A simple request to create something more robust than the office whiteboard for monitoring some friendly water drinking competition. All in the name of good health.

At first blush it didn't seem that enticing or exciting. Couldn't you just use a spreadsheet, or maybe the office whiteboard? It would be easy enough to build the basics but not very interesting. It certainly didn't seem like something I'd want to spend my limited free time on.

I mumbled something like "mmm...yeah...maybe...I'll think about it," and hung up the phone. Usually, that little gem is the marks the official end of any such conversation and is the last anyone would ever hear about it. Usually.

This was a bit different. As I sat there a nugget was rattling around in my brain. Maybe if it wasn't water. Seems like a lot of work for something so simple. Maybe if it were more interesting. Like when I lost a lot of weight in the past I kept track with graphs and spreadsheets and rolling averages...

It suddenly dawned on me. I'm always trying to keep track of something. How much money I'm blowing at lunch. Which direction my weight is headed. The number of times I go to the gym in a week. What I won at poker. How many miles I ran.

I would routinely set up some sort of chart to keep track of these things. My hard drive is littered with dusty spreadsheets consisting of 3 entries and a half-assed bar graph. Mind you, I didn't stop eating lunch after 3 days, I just stopped keeping track. It was sort of a pain to remember to do and, aside from the bursts of self-improvement that would generate the first entry, the motivation quickly waned.

What if the graph would send me a message and remind me to update it at the appropriate time? What if I could record that information when it happened - no matter where I was? What if I could rely on my over-developed sense of competition and vanity to encourage my behavior and my mindfulness of it? That would be something.

That is zeaLOG, and it really is quite something.

It's pretty simple, really. zeaLOG is a life tracking site for keeping track of your personal metrics or just about anything else. The best part is you don't have to go it alone. Join your friends to harness the power of peer pressure for good. Work together to keep track and measure up.