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This exhibit records the various types of logs that people record to keep track of their everyday lives. In this collection, you'll find several different types of logs ranging from exercise to flavor profiles. The manner in which this genre is recorded varies dramatically depending on the person doing the recording and the medium they choose to record it in. Many of the people who used digital methods recorded only essential information, favoring brevity and ease of access, while the people who favored hand-writing their logs chose color-coding and artistic elements to personalize their entries. 

Though there are numerous apps that will do some of this tracking for us nowadays, each of these individuals chose to do their recording manually, either typing or drawing out the information that they wanted to record themselves.

The range of time that each log records also varies greatly, for instance, the Game Score log covers a few years worth of games while the exercise log records only a single day. The length of time that a log covers directly correlates to the amount of information that needs to be recorded - for instance, since the exercise log needs to account for several different types of exercise in a single day, it requires a longer entry. If it were to be expanded to cover several days (or even a month), it might lose it's effectivness at conveying the specific information needed. The water tracker, on the other hand, simply records how many liters the writer drank in a single day and is used specifically to record one specific habit over an extended period of time.