What Is This?
The Spoon Theory Tracker quantifies your daily energy using the Spoon Theory framework — letting you log activities with their energy cost, track your running balance, and receive a daily WhatsApp summary report that reveals patterns in how you spend your capacity.
Why It Exists
Chronic illness, neurodivergence, and burnout all cause one common problem: energy that's unpredictable and finite but treated as infinite. Without visibility into your daily energy budget, you consistently overcommit, crash, and recover — in an unbroken cycle. This tool makes the budget visible so you can actually manage it.
Who It's For
- ▸People with chronic illness, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, or similar conditions
- ▸Neurodivergent individuals with highly variable daily energy
- ▸Anyone who consistently overcommits and burns out on a cyclical basis
How It Works
You set your daily spoon budget (5–25) and customise the cost of your regular activities. As you move through the day, you log activities and their spoon costs. The tracker calculates your running balance and alerts you when you drop below your threshold. A daily summary report is delivered to WhatsApp.
You get:
- ▸A real-time spoon balance throughout the day
- ▸Threshold alerts when you're approaching depletion
- ▸A daily WhatsApp summary with activity costs logged
- ▸Pattern data over time for informed planning
What Makes It Different
This externalises the energy management problem. Instead of relying on how you feel in the moment, you have a number — and a running total — that makes overcommitting visible before it happens.
