Spoon Tracker

🥄 What is Spoon Theory?

Spoon Theory is a way of describing the limited energy many people living with chronic illness, disability, or fatigue have each day. Imagine starting the morning with a set number of "spoons" — every activity, from showering to a work meeting, costs spoons. Once they're gone, they're gone, and rest is how you earn some back.

It gives a simple, shared language for something invisible: "I only have a few spoons left today" says more, and more kindly, than trying to explain exhaustion from scratch.

📊 What you can track

Spoon Tracker turns that idea into a daily habit you can actually keep:

• Set how many spoons you start each day with, and watch them go as you log activities.
• Quick-log common activities with one tap, grouped and color-coded by your own categories.
• Log rest and naps that restore spoons, not just spend them.
• Note how you're feeling — your overall energy can raise or lower the day's total.
• Look back over your history to spot patterns and pace yourself.

See how it works, with screenshots →

🥄 Welcome to Spoon Tracker

Spoon Tracker helps you manage daily energy using Spoon Theory: you start each day with a set number of "spoons," and every activity costs some. When they're gone, they're gone — and rest earns a few back. Logging this builds a picture of your energy you can actually look back on.

Here's a quick tour of each part of the app.

📋 The Today page

This is your home base for the current day (or any day you've opened from History).

• Spoon bar — shows spoons remaining, used, and your total for the day, with a row of spoon icons that dim as you spend them.
• How are you feeling today? — pick a mood. Your overall energy nudges the day's total up or down (configurable in Settings). Tap the selected mood again to clear it.
• Quick-log a common activity — one-tap buttons for your saved activities, grouped and color-coded by category. Each shows its spoon cost.
• Log an activity — type anything, pick a spoon amount, and choose whether it Uses spoons (the default) or Restores spoons (e.g. a nap). Restoring activities show as a green +N.
• End-of-day summary — jot a note for the day (e.g. for an appointment) and save it.

📅 The History page

• See past days at a glance — spoons used, mood, activities, and any note.
• Click any day to open it on the Today page, where you can review or edit it (the button changes to "Save Summary for <date>").
• Print for an appointment — generate a clean printable report for the last 7 or 30 days, or a custom date range, to share with a doctor.

⚙️ Settings

• Daily starting spoons — your baseline number of spoons before any feeling adjustment.
• Feeling spoon adjustments — set how each mood changes the day's total (e.g. Great +10, Very Low −10).
• Categories — create groups (Work, Personal, Fitness…), each with a color picker. The colors tint the matching quick-log buttons on the Today page.
• Common activities — manage your quick-log presets: name, category, and cost. For cost, a plain number uses spoons (e.g. 2), and a + prefix restores them (e.g. +2 for a nap).
• Remember to press Save Settings after making changes here.

💡 Tips

• Set your starting spoons and feeling values to match how your energy actually works — there's no "right" number.
• Log rest and naps as restoring activities so the bar reflects energy you got back, not just spent.
• Over a few weeks, the History view helps you spot patterns and pace yourself.

ℹ️ About this site

Spoon Tracker (my-spoons.org) is a personal energy-tracking tool built around Spoon Theory. It's run independently as a small project, not a company or a healthcare provider.

🔒 Privacy

Your account is identified by your sign-in (Google or an email address). Your tracking data — daily spoons, activities, categories, moods, and notes — is stored in a private database on this site's own server. We use Firebase only to verify who you are at sign-in.

We do not sell or share your data, and we don't use it for advertising. Please keep entries general and avoid storing personal identifying information (PII) or medical details — see the disclaimer below. To request a copy or deletion of your data, contact us.

📜 Terms of use

This tool is provided as is, without warranties of any kind, for personal use. We can't guarantee uninterrupted or error-free service, and aren't liable for any loss arising from its use. Use it responsibly and don't attempt to disrupt the service or other users.

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