I love to learn, and some of the best lessons I know today have come from books. While I love to read, I take my time to really understand the content, and implement the practices into my life. This led me to have a lot of book recommendations, and not enough time to read all of them.
My solution to this problem back in 2019 was to design my own book tracking system to help decide what book to read next, as well as keep track of the number of books I have read.
This project also gave me the opportunity to play with the pivot table functionality on MS Excel. Because of this personal project, I now feel comfortable working with pivot table and the vlookup functions. A template of the system can be found here:
I have since transferred the work load of this system from an Excel sheet to GoodReads.com, since it frees up some space on my laptop and syncs everywhere. (Not to mention, the fun little widget on the right side that shows what I’m reading 😉)
