A habit tracker that's just a list

Most habit apps want a streak. Miss a day and the number resets, and the app meant to help starts to feel like a scold. A bullet journal does it differently. A habit is a list of the days you did it, and a missed day is just a gap.

In Inklings, that list is a collection. Here's one to try, a morning stretch with the gaps left in. Tap today to tick it.

Write it as a list

A tracker is a heading and one line for each day you did the thing:

# Stretch
Oct 11:
Oct 12:
Oct 13:

That's all it is. Inklings reads the lines, sees a tracker, and draws it as one: the days you did it marked, the gaps plain. A tap on today ticks it, and writes the line for you.

Count, not just tick

Some habits are a number: glasses of water, pages read, minutes outside. Give the heading an aim and write the day's count:

# Water · 8 a day
Oct 12: 6
Oct 13: 3

Inklings draws it as a tally, each glass a dot, against the aim. A tap adds one.

Why a list helps

A list keeps the whole record, not only the current run. After a bad week you can see that the month was still mostly good. And it's plain text: you can read it in any editor, save a copy, and bring it back.

Pin a habit to Today and it sits on the day's page, one tap from done.

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