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Notes on tracking habits without lying to yourself
Written by the one developer who builds Habit Pocket. What I changed about how I track, what it fixed, and the parts I still haven’t worked out.
Essay
I built a habit tracker because I didn’t want to pick up my phone
Every app I found lived on the device I was trying to use less, so I opened Numbers instead and stayed there for years.
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Essay
The third color in my spreadsheet was gray, and I’ve never been able to drop it
Done and not done can’t tell a rest day from a day I couldn’t be bothered, and by March I couldn’t remember which one a blank Wednesday in February had been.
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Essay
My grid went all green and stopped telling me anything
Setting a floor killed the nightly argument about whether 9,300 counts, and then every day above the floor started looking exactly like every other one.
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Essay
The checkbox was making me lie to myself every night
Two years of tracking steps as done or not done, and the worst part was the argument at eleven every night about whether 9,300 counts.
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Five habits. Thirty days.
See what shows up.
No credit card. Pick five habits. Come back in a month.