Habit Pocket — Blog https://habitpocket.io/blog/ Essays on habit tracking from the developer of Habit Pocket. en Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT I built a habit tracker because I didn’t want to pick up my phone https://habitpocket.io/blog/the-spreadsheet-years/ https://habitpocket.io/blog/the-spreadsheet-years/ Every app I found lived on the device I was trying to use less, so I opened Numbers instead and stayed there for years. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT The third color in my spreadsheet was gray, and I’ve never been able to drop it https://habitpocket.io/blog/a-skip-is-not-a-blank/ https://habitpocket.io/blog/a-skip-is-not-a-blank/ 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. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT My grid went all green and stopped telling me anything https://habitpocket.io/blog/color-should-mean-something/ https://habitpocket.io/blog/color-should-mean-something/ 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. Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT The checkbox was making me lie to myself every night https://habitpocket.io/blog/set-a-minimum-not-a-goal/ https://habitpocket.io/blog/set-a-minimum-not-a-goal/ 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. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT