{"id":212,"date":"2012-01-18T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/freedom-from-spreadsheets\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:58:07","slug":"freedom-from-spreadsheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/freedom-from-spreadsheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom From Spreadsheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>How much personal stuff do you track with spreadsheets? Does all that tracking take the fun out of your free time?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just you \u2013 in her blog, Vicariously Yours, Sarah Layden talks about her years of recording all the books that she read. &#8220;I tallied my reading habits on nerdalicious spreadsheets, sharing and comparing with my readerly friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But now, she&#8217;s given up that tracking habit, and reads without logging all the details. You can find her story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahlayden.com\/2011\/12\/spreadsheet-no-more-tale-of-liberation.html\">Spreadsheet No More! A tale of liberation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That &#8220;Sad Animals&#8221; book looks familiar \u2013 I&#8217;ve read something like that a few hundred times in the past. But usually I stick to the technical books, and those aren&#8217;t too interesting to track anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/exceladdin2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"exceladdin2\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/exceladdin2_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"exceladdin2\" width=\"255\" height=\"323\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much personal stuff do you track with spreadsheets? Does all that tracking take the fun out of your free time? It&#8217;s not just you \u2013 in her blog, Vicariously Yours, Sarah Layden talks&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}