See where your energy actually goes.
Bounded Self logs energy costs and gains across your day, then surfaces where costs are consistent and where they're shifting. These guides show you how.
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How Bounded Self Works
Getting Started
Getting Set Up
Walk through signup, consent, and your first guided tour so you know what you're looking at from day one.
Your First Week
What to log, when to log it, and what your dashboard starts showing you after 5–7 days of real entries.
Logging an Entry
How to record an energy cost or gain: the 1–10 scale, quick-pick categories, and why the same task can cost more on different days.
Guided Tours
Three guided walkthroughs show you how tracking, budgeting, and insights work. Replay any tour from Settings whenever you need a refresher.
Core Features
Your Entry History
Browse past entries by date, category, mood, location, or person. Spot patterns across time and context.
Understanding Your Insights
How the dashboard surfaces cost shifts, gain streaks, drain windows, and your best vs. worst days — and what to do with that information.
Default Categories
The 30 built-in energy categories available to every account, covering work, health, social, home, and personal activities.
Location Tags
Tag entries with where you were, then see whether certain places consistently cost more energy. Requires location consent.
People Tags
Tag entries with who you were with to surface social energy patterns and see how different relationships show up across your data.
Consent & Privacy
What data Bounded Self collects, what each consent choice enables, and how to export or delete everything.
Habit Goals
Set a daily tracking goal and watch the progress bar fill. After 7 days of consistent logging, insights get noticeably sharper.
Premium Features
Energy Budgeting
Set a weekly budget per category, track spending against it in real time, and let the system flag when something costs more than usual.
Reports & Analytics
Spending trend charts, budget comparisons over 30 days to a year, and an insights panel that surfaces what shifted and when.
Energy Journal
A daily calendar-based journal with prompts, useful when numbers alone don't capture what happened.
Running Experiments
Write a hypothesis, set your measures, establish a baseline, and let the data tell you whether your change actually worked.
Bulk Entry
Log multiple energy entries at once. Pick a date and time period, add categories, set levels, and save them all in one go.
Custom Categories
Create, rename, and organize custom energy categories with icons and budget groups. A premium feature for users who need categories beyond the 30 defaults.
Account & Support
Account & Settings
Manage your subscription, notification preferences, consent choices, and data export or deletion.
Plans & Pricing
Free tracking for as long as you need it. Premium unlocks budgeting, reports, experiments, and deeper insights.
Help & Support
Can't find what you need? Reach the team directly. Response time is typically one business day.
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