For a long time I had a small but annoying problem. I like tracking habits, but not only the yes/no kind like did I meditate today. I also care about numbers. Wake up time, how many steps I walked, glasses of water, calories. For me the numbers are half of the picture, and almost no tracker treated them that way.
First I just used apps. Streaks for the habits, Apple Health for steps and weight, a few others for the rest. Each one is fine on its own. But my progress was scattered across like four different apps and I never had one screen where I could actually see how my month went.
Then I went full analog. Bought a Moleskine, wrote everything by hand. The first weeks I loved it. But a notebook doesn't add anything up for you, and the moment you miss two days you stop opening it.
After that, Excel. Numbers from Apple actually, but same idea. One grid, habits and metrics together, green and red cells, a few formulas doing the totals. This one finally clicked, and I tracked like this for almost two years.
Excel was good but it has limits. On the phone it is painful, I would forget to fill it when I wasn't at my laptop, and it's just not something you look forward to opening.
So eventually I built the thing I actually wanted. Habit Pocket is that spreadsheet turned into a real app. Same grid, same logic, but it works on the phone, it doesn't break when you skip a day, and it can chart any habit against any other so you can find the correlations you always suspected were there. It's free to start, on web and now iOS.
It's a solo project, so I'd really love honest feedback, especially on whether the habits + numbers in one place idea makes sense to someone who isn't me.
