Anyway, thanks to Daytum designer Nicholas Felton, I’m told the meaning of life is within my grasp… Felton first started discovering who he was using personal infographics in 2005 when he issued his first Annual Report. He tracked his time spent working, the countries he’d visited, his favourite books, his favourite refreshment, creating a life report that was a mix of pie charts, bar graphs and lifestyle-based statistics. Today, this has morphed into a bigger community site for the masses, in an attempt to help the rest of us restless souls track our own day-to-day data and discover what it is that makes each of us unique.

“There is a lot of honesty in data,” explains Felton of his tool, “and better tools for recording and displaying information help everyone. This may be a greater knowledge of self and an accurate image of habits (good and bad), a more nuanced portrait of a person, or a macro-image of an event or issue. There is much to be gained from this transparency.” Try it out for free here.

Of course, if you don’t trust the data and still don’t know who you are, what you like and if you’re hot or not, you can always just fake it. Most people do anyway. Trusty old Google to the rescue to help you with that even – check out Google Trends.

As Mashable.com puts it: “With millions of Google searches performed every day, it makes sense that what people are searching for can be a good indicator of what has captured the interest of the US and the rest of the world” (ie. anyone and everyone cooler than ourselves). And this is what Google Trends does: “tells you what’s currently popular on the search engine via its Hot Trends feature, which displays how popular the search is and graphs out the volume of searches over time.” Hot Trends also gives you upfront the most-searched trends/topics each day.

Google has also just announced that it has now integrated Google Trends in actual Google Search results – but as far as we can tell this has only been rolled out in the US and Japan so far. What you can expect though is that now when you search a hot trend, you will find the trend and its graph at the bottom of the search engine results page. Whatever you search for, you will also find its hotness, how it ranks in the top 100 most popular searches, and the search volume graph.

Simple but pretty cool. (Do we still say ‘cool’? Hot or not?)