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About this tool
Log social events and alone time for the week, see the battery level left, the heaviest day and the recovery hours you still owe yourself.
The Social Battery Tracker turns a week of social commitments into a single number you can plan against. Each entry is costed by the kind of contact (a one-to-one with someone close is far cheaper per hour than a party or a presentation), how long it lasts, how much you actually want to be there, and where you sit on the introversion-extraversion scale, all charged against a 100-unit weekly budget. Alone time and low-key contact put units back, so the tool also shows how many quiet hours the week still owes you. The units are an explicit budgeting scheme for comparing one week with another — not a physiological measurement.
Open Social Battery Tracker on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
Public speaking is charged at over four times the hourly rate of a one-to-one with someone close.
Alone time restores units, and the tool reports the quiet hours still needed to offset what is booked.
Flags every day above the even daily share, so you can move one thing instead of cancelling the week.
It is an everyday metaphor for having a limited amount of energy for social contact that depletes with use and refills with time alone. It is not a measured physiological quantity, and no scientific instrument reports it — this tool gives it consistent numbers purely so two weeks can be compared on the same scale.
Introversion-extraversion is the personality dimension most consistently linked to how stimulating social contact feels, with more introverted people generally reaching their comfortable limit sooner. The tool applies a multiplier of about 1.45 at the strongly introverted end and 0.55 at the strongly extraverted end, leaving a balanced disposition unchanged.
There is no established figure, so this tool uses one clear rule: an hour of quiet alone time restores 8 units, which is what it charges for the drain. It then reports the gap between the recovery you have scheduled and the recovery your bookings imply, so you can see whether the week balances rather than guessing.
No. Needing recovery after socialising is a normal preference difference; social anxiety is persistent fear of being judged that leads to avoidance and distress, and it is a diagnosable condition that responds well to treatment. If you are avoiding contact you would otherwise want, that is worth raising with a doctor rather than budgeting around.