Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34343471-20191126172154/@comment-37443679-20191229214808

Angelica526 wrote:

Do you guys find "doing it all" time consuming? Or is it a piece of cake once you have formulated your data sheets? A lot of you have hundreds of friends too!

<--Inquiring minds want to know =D I use an excel spreadsheet to note daily but briefly how many access passes and other gifts I receive, for example 15FW2 means 15 passes, a fixer and 2 items from my wishlist. So I know who to send thankyous to, and who is being specially generous. Also a second column with an x if they have sent randoms back. This doesn't take much time once you get the hang of only clicking gifts from one or two friends at a time, so you don't lose track LOL.

I also have a spreadsheet where I note game levels from time to time - 2-3 times a month - and if they visit. I keep it very simple, but it's a help to see if someone has stopped playing altogether before I delete them.

My third spreadsheet is for the daily quests, also very brief. A column for each task or reward, and columns for the chest rewards.

I have around 80 friends, very few sleepers. Before I retired, I worked in biomedical research and then teaching science, so organising data comes naturally. I love lists, graphs and diagrams.