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Showerthought: My habit tracker took me a whole weekend to figure out.
I wanted a simple way to track my water intake and reading. Just two things. I spent Friday night sketching grids, trying to make it look nice. Saturday, I messed up the spacing and had to redo the whole page. I tried using washi tape to fix it, but that just made it worse. By Sunday afternoon, I had gone through about ten pages in my Leuchtturm notebook. I finally just drew two lines with a ruler and called it done. All that time for two lines. Has anyone else had a tracker idea that turned into a huge project?
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evancarter6mo ago
Ugh, the color coding trap is so real. I did that with a workout log, adding symbols for mood and energy level. Updating it felt like a second job, so I just stopped.
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kellyallen5mo ago
Honestly, the same thing happened with my sleep log. Got so caught up making the perfect layout with moon phases that I never actually wrote in it. What finally stuck was just a tiny calendar printed from online, taped inside a kitchen cabinet. Two check marks per day, one for bed before midnight, one for no phone in bed. Took two minutes to set up and I've used it for months. Sometimes the ugliest fix is the one that works.
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craig.parker6mo ago
Totally get this. I once tried to make a custom weekly meal planner. Started with a few boxes for dinners, but then I thought it needed a grocery list column, then a spot for recipe page numbers. Ended up with this crazy color coded chart that took three hours to draw. I used it exactly once because it was so complicated to update. The simple list on my fridge works way better.
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