Recently I’ve been intrigued by the personal statistic service over at Daytum.com. In brief summary Daytum is a service that allows users to quickly generate graphs about anything they’re interested in. It then publishes them in a beautiful interface for others to see.

This new service got me thinking about how awesome it would be to have a detailed statistical overview of one’s life. I’m not talking bare bones stats, but rather in depth detailed statistics. I.E. cups of coffee consumed daily, total number video game hours played, the longest period of time spent awake, the number miles driven, the amount of jokes told, the amount of jokes flopped, etc.

Well, interestingly enough it was pointed out to me that the head graphic designer behind Daytum actually has compiled some yearly statistics of his life. You can check them out over at Nicholas Felton’s site.

Looking at Nicholas’ statistics made me start to wonder, how would you track these sorts of things? I imagine some of it would have to be guess work, maybe sitting down once every two weeks and going over your four or five big categories. “What was my average amount of sleep this week? How many girl’s numbers did I ask for, how many did I get? How much time did I spend reading?” Then, over the course of the year you could keep these life stats tracked in a service like Daytum. Or you could tweet them to a private twitter feed. Then at the end of the year you could run all this information through an excel sheet and see exactly where you stood. Granted it would be a definite time commitment, but I think it might be worth it to see an overview of your life in statistical format.

I’d be curious to know if anyone else has other good ideas for how to document these sorts of things, perhaps a good iPhone app? Leave your ideas in the comments or hit us up on Twitter @imulus.

Update: Edited spelling mistakes of Feltron vs. Felton, oops.