PrivateChief Well-being: Score What Matters Once a Day and See What Helps
Well-being is the PrivateChief tool for one small daily habit: score the things you care about, such as your back, a knee, your energy or your mood, from 1 (worst) to 10 (best), once a day, and see over weeks and months whether what you are doing is working. It is a private diary, not medical advice. The household in this walkthrough, the Ashfords, is invented for the demonstration.
Chapters
What Well-being does
- Lets you follow any part of physical or mental well-being, from a starter list or your own, each scored 1 to 10 where up is always better.
- Records what you did each day with tags and a note, so the trends can compare days with and without each one.
- Sends one evening text at the time you choose with up to five trackers; reply with the numbers and the home saves exactly that and tells you what it recorded.
- Sends nothing on a day when every tracker in the text is already scored.
- Markers draw a line on the charts and compare before and after a change, such as starting physical therapy.
- Week, month, year and all-time charts, with a seven-day average and a comparison with the previous period.
- "What seems to help" shows patterns in your own entries, never proof of cause, and only with at least three days on each side.
- Adults only, stored on your home, never shown to other household members or spoken on a shared wall.
What the narrator says
0:00Score what matters
Is my back getting better? Is what I am doing actually working? Well-being answers with one small habit: a score from one to ten, once a day.
0:12Pick what to follow
Laura Ashford, from a family invented for this demonstration, starts by picking what to follow: her back, her right knee, energy and mood. Every score runs from one, the worst, to ten, the best.
0:29Adults only, and private
It is for adults only. The diary stays on the home, is never shown to other members or spoken on a shared wall, and it is not medical advice.
0:40Scoring the day, with tags and a note
Here is her day. After a short night, her back is a four. One tap on a number saves it, and the row of days above shows which ones are scored. She ticks what she did, like stretching, or poor sleep, and adds a note. Those tags are what the trends compare later.
1:02What goes in the evening text
Up to five trackers go into one evening text. A tracker she no longer needs can be retired, and it keeps its history.
1:12Answering by text
At eight each evening, the text asks for her four scores, and she replies with four numbers. The home reads that reply itself, without the chat assistant, and answers with exactly what it saved. If she has already scored everything, no text is sent.
1:31Markers for a change
A marker records a change, like starting physical therapy. It draws a line on the charts, and the trends compare before and after.
1:42Trends and the seven-day average
Trends shows each tracker by week, month, year or all time. Her back averaged five point nine this month, one point three better than the month before. The line is a seven-day average.
1:57What seems to help
What seems to help compares days with and without each tag. On days with her PT exercises, her back averaged one point six higher. Poor sleep goes with lower energy. These are patterns in her own entries, not proof of cause.
2:15Find out more
Well-being. Score what matters, and see what helps. PrivateChief. Find out more at privatechief.com.
