What is emotion tracking?

Emotion tracking is a concept in personal epistemology: Your emotions are data, not noise. Recording them creates the only dataset that reveals what your conscious reasoning consistently misses.

Example: You write 'frustrated — 7/10 — reviewing Q3 roadmap, felt like my input was ignored in the prioritization meeting.' Three weeks later, scanning your log, you see frustrated appears in five of six entries tied to that same cross-functional meeting. You never noticed the pattern while living it. The log did.

This concept is part of Phase 3 (Capture Systems) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for capture systems.