Social Battery Advisor

Learn which interactions affect your energy — and what makes the difference.

Notice what leaves you with more energy — and what leaves you with less. Log an interaction before and after; over time, Social Battery Advisor helps you spot patterns in your own experience and decide what might be worth changing.

See what Social Battery Advisor gives you

Real output from reviewing the five logged interactions below. Part of the result is shown; nothing is reworded.

Five logged interactions (energy before → after, out of 5)

Dinner with friends, 4 → 2, had to be "on" a lot — six people, fast conversation. Weekly team meeting, 3 → 3, some — mostly listened. Phone call with my sister, 2 → 4, not much. Extended family gathering, 3 → 1, a lot — tension to smooth over. Coffee with an old friend, 3 → 5, not much — easy conversation.

Real run, 2026-10-08 — the tool's five built-in example interactions, logged together.

Summary

Two interactions ended higher, two ended lower, one stayed the same—with a contrast worth watching between on-ness and outcome. You've logged five different kinds of interaction. The dinner with friends and the extended family gathering both ended 2 points lower, while the phone call with your sister and coffee with your old friend both ended 2 points higher. The weekly team meeting left your rating unchanged.

On-ness and outcome went opposite directions in your two highest-energy interactions

In these entries, the two interactions where you felt not much on-ness both ended higher, and the two where you felt a lot of on-ness both ended lower. This is only four entries, so it's worth continuing to track rather than treating as an established explanation yet—but it's a real contrast in what you've logged so far.

Test next

Keep logging as usual. Pay attention to your on-ness rating specifically. As more interactions accumulate, see whether lower or higher on-ness repeatedly appears alongside different before-and-after outcomes.

In a Nutshell

When

You want to know which interactions actually cost you energy, not just guess.

You give

One interaction at a time — what it was, your energy before and after, and how much you had to be 'on'.

You get

Patterns and contrasts across what you've logged, and one small experiment worth testing next.

The edge

It won't score your week or forecast a crash — just what your own logged interactions actually show.

Good to Know

• Log right after the interaction — energy ratings from memory a day later are a guess, not data
• One log tells you what happened once; it takes two or three comparable logs before a pattern means much
• There's no energy score or weekly budget here — just what your own logs show
• The tool suggests at most one experiment at a time — try that before logging a dozen more interactions
• If a note sounds like you're heading toward a bigger crash, not just one draining interaction, the tool may point you to Before the Crash instead of another experiment

Questions people ask

Why do some social events drain me and others don't?

It's often about how much you have to perform rather than who you're with: group size, pace and smoothing over tension cost energy; easy one-on-one time can give it back. Logging a few interactions shows your own pattern.

What do I log?

The interaction, your energy before and after, how much you had to be "on", and a short note. It takes under a minute.

Is this an introvert test?

No. It doesn't label you; it compares your own logged interactions and suggests what to watch for next.