Guide To Google Drive
Dump All Your Exes Into a Spreadsheet
There are valuable clues hidden in your romantic history
This piece is part of How Google Drive Can Make Every Corner of Your Life Easier
As a teenager, I imagined my adult dating life would go something like this: Meet man. Marry. The end. Trial and error was for losers. Dating was for doubters. By my exacting metric, any time spent with someone I knew wasn’t a match was a waste of time.
Like many teenagers, I did not know what I was talking about. The “trial and error” element of dating hasn’t been a waste of time at all; it’s been an essential part of growing up, and offered some meaningful wisdom along the way. And I found some of that wisdom in a spreadsheet.
One evening a few years ago, with a lot of time on my hands and my talent for self-entertainment at an all-time high, I made a Google Sheet of everyone I’ve ever dated. This was not meant to be a serious project — I titled the document “Mens” — but I soon found myself invested in completing it. I was newly single, and I began looking for patterns in the data, clusters of like qualities or flaws that would help me in my future romantic endeavors.
