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Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

#71

You can use 16px font size on mobile so the browser won't zoom in to the text field.

Thank you! this should be fixed, I didn't realize ios had a zoom in feature like this. There was also an issue with the overflow not working on ios, which is also fixed

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

#72

I use an iPhone 12 mini. In portrait mode, the site was nearly unusable. I would add a habit, and the keyboard covered up the description field. There was no way for me to scroll the page to get the description field. Fortunately, the iOS keyboard has a next field button which I could click and hello me to entered the habit description. I too like the clean design and wish you good luck.

The scroll and zoom issues on ios should now be fixed

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

#73
This was cool, looks quite nice and polished.

I also made a quick activity tracker app recently but went with Django, Bootstrap and HTMX. Used it myself for few weeks but then moved on with other stuff. Can't seem to keep up using such app personally.

Cleaned up the readme just now and added a demo video https://codeberg.org/jasalt/tracker. Should be quick to setup with Sqlite locally. I've had it running on Fly.io (free) and connecting to Postgres on a some toy VPS.

Far from a finished thing but maybe can inspire someone.

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

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This is really cool. I definitely like the expansive stat tracking. The weekly report is a really nice touch. gives you a chance to reflect on your progress.

I don't use Google Calendar often, so it took me a while to get the tracking part to work, but it worked flawlessly once I understood about the event naming

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#75

This is really cool. I don’t think I have diagnosable ADHD, but I have noticed that gamification features like “streaks” often cause more problems in building habits than helping them. My daughter, who is diagnosed with severe ADHD, eventually had to “give up” some of the streak based apps like Duolingo because they are, imho, preying on our desire to complete “streaks” only to increase in-app activity for their own…

Oh interesting, that's why I added the "freeze" feature to help avoid feeling "required" to go on the app every day. But maybe it requires some more customization to account for wider cases

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

#76

Surprised nobody mentioned the two low resolution images on the front page. (my habits and the email input at the bottom). Curious why you wouldn't just put the actual component there rather than a fuzzy-screen shot of them?

I guess they get fuzzy on some different devices. When I was making it, picture was like the first thing I thought of so I just went with that. but definitely having the component there sounds way better

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

#78
Nice! Something I’ve been noticing lately is that I’ll see something interesting like this, maybe leave a comment or try it out, and tab away and it’s as good as gone, even if I save it to my Telegram saves, or any other list — there’s just so much time-linear content coming in and past my mind that’s very easy to lose again unless something really grabs my attention and energy for a while, and offers something to look forward to tomorrow. Call it ADD or whatever you want, but there is simply too much content / information, even if it’s all useful and good and non-spammy.

Something along the lines of your app could possibly help “de-linearize” (?) things into a daily timeline or mindspace — I think everyone’s become so used to the timeline conditioning that it can be pretty harmful, really. Not sure what to do with all that.

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

#80

Had to create an account to say this is a good free app. What's your plan to keep it up and running? Key concern from non-technical people such as myself is longevity of new apps like this.

Thank you! The hosting and storage solutions are free forever so they'll stay up. Even if those get shutdown or something (unlikely), the app works fully offline so you'd still be able to use it
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