Add Habit Tracker
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It’ll be useful if there is a habit tracker feature added in DayOne. I like to see how many days I read books, for example, or even play video games, etc.
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I would agree with this. the only available shortcut is sort of odd and confusing. I feel like right now, I’m having to use several different applications to track all sorts of different things.
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I agree as well, this is a wonderful idea! I’ve shared both your words, @cambridgeport90 and @shevonlim with our team for further consideration as we look to the future of Day One. A habit tracker would be such a neat one to include, and helpful for all kinds of things.
If you have any other suggestions for us do let us know.
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there is an app called HabitKit that I really enjoy, but I would prefer to have that kind of a graph integrated right into my journal. The currently available habit tracking template is clunky and not user friendly.
Possibly have a “sticky post” that stays up top of my list of posts, so I can easily access it and edit it over time, or have it as a choice in the dropdown tray from that button on the top left for easy navigation to it. Or even a toggle on to have a given day’s current graphs auto attached onto every post, so you can see progress over time and how it relates to whatever else you’re writing about. That would be useful for seeing how life is generally effecting the progress on habits. Thanks!
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I too would like to see a habit tracker feature added. I’ve used other apps and such but having it all in one app would make for a smoother intuitive experience.
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Thanks for reaching out! I wasn’t expecting an email address as the whole message, but no worries. It actually reminded me of those random conversations where people end up talking about hobbies and games. I’ve always found gambling games interesting for the mix of luck and anticipation, and sometimes it’s fun to play Big Catch Lock 2 Spin just to see how the mechanics work.
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+1. This would be extremely helpful. I’ve tried so many habit trackers and none of them work well for me.
If anyone’s interested I have been working on a rather convoluted way to do this using Day One and iOS shortcuts and it’s not complete, but here’s the gist of it:
My current semi-sorta-kinda workaround is to have a template with the main things I want to track in the template with a default of “N”, as in
walk: N
exercise: N
(the template has various sections, not all of which are populated by default).
Then I have an automation on my phone that creates this habit tracker template entry every morning in a dedicated journal. I don’t want it to add to my journaling streak or come up in “On this day” so I modified those settings accordingly on the journal.
I have quick iOS shortcuts that allow me to edit the log during the day by just tapping a widget button, and then when I go to bed, the entry opens one more time and I can quickly change any “N”s to “Y”s where they apply.
I also have sections of the template where I can add in my own notes if I want to, but the main purpose of the template is to make it as quick and easy as possible to track things; I’m not trying to document my entire day or write a “typical” journal entry here. So I find it really helpful to just be able to pop in and say “Y” to the things I did and leave the rest as “N”. (Depending on what’s being tracked the defaults could be the other way around.)
That’s where it is right now and this has worked extremely well for me in terms of consistently documenting the habits I want to track in one place [1]. Obviously the part missing is the statistics / visuals.
For that part, I’m thinking I can export the entries and have ChatGPT extract the data and do the statistics for me. I’ve confirmed that it can pull and parse the relevant data from the current iteration of my template [2]. So it’s a matter of figuring out those data-transfer and ChatGPT logistics/automation to see if it actually gives me what I’m looking for in a way that doesn’t require much work on my part.
This was an accidental side project, but even if it doesn’t totally pan out, the habit tracker template has been really valuable to me as a reliable way to track a list of habits. It also has made me better about completing certain things because I want to see that “N” changed to a “Y”.
Notes:
[1]: The reason this works so well for me in terms of consistency is that I already have a shortcut that I run first thing every single morning and every single night before I fall asleep [3], so I just added on the DayOne actions to those shortcuts. Since I always run them, I always have a Daily Log entry created in the morning and that same entry comes up when I run the nighttime shortcut.
[2]: One reason I populate the template with a default of “N” is that if I want to analyze the data in these entries, I think it’s helpful for machine/data readability to have an unambiguous record of whether or not I did the thing (vs leaving it blank if I didn’t do it). It also makes it easy for me to scan entries myself and see whether I did something.
[3]: These shortcuts change certain settings on my phone that I want to be a certain way when I’m in bed and a different way when I wake up, so I never forget to run them.
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Hi @bamb00blue
Thanks for sharing this idea, and for the detailed workaround you put together! Tracking how many days you read, exercise, or do any recurring activity is a great use of a journal.
Day One does not have a dedicated habit tracker today. One way to get close: add a tag to each entry, for example “reading” or “gaming”, then filter your journal by that tag and use Calendar view to see which days have a matching entry. The template plus widget plus shortcut approach described above is a more advanced version of the same idea.
I will pass this suggestion along to the team. I can’t say if or when it will be added, but feedback like this helps us understand how people want to use Day One.
