I’ve noticed a couple of nice reviews of CacheStats 3.0 already: one at Geocaching Online and another at Trip’s GeoAdventures. I especially liked TripCyclone’s suggestion to combine grouping with the show caches feature to learn interesting nuggets about your finds. For example:
With these settings, I can see whose caches I’ve had to log the most DNFs on (Did Not Find it logs). One caveat about DNFs: geocaching.com only includes the caches you have found in the my finds pocket query. So any caches that you’ve logged a DNF on but haven’t found yet won’t be included. You can easily think of other interesting combinations:
- FTFs (First To Find) grouped by status (see which of your FTFs have been archived)
- DNFs grouped by difficulty
- DNFs grouped by size (any surprise that Micros is at the top of my list?)
In the same manner, you can also combine grouping with search. I previously suggested some interesting items to search on, for example weather-related terms. So if I search on “rain” while grouping by month, guess what? No mentions of rain in December or January, but plenty in the summer months. No big surprise of course. But you might run into a few surprises too. I searched for “bike” and grouped by terrain. The highest terrain that we biked on was a 3.5 believe it or not.
Give it a try, especially if you like to stroll down memory lane. You might find some interesting facts about your finds.