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Re: Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app

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Post by gee_totes »

There are enough comment on here, so I'm going to give some critiques.

I think you should change the calendar mockup.

From the Xs on the calendar, I was reminded of Jerry Seinfeld's: "Don't break the chain"[0], an anecedote about how making a chain of Xs on a calendar is the best way to form a productive habit. Someone else mentioned it in the comments as well.

However, the chain on the calendar is broken! Those users with the impression that this app will help them form a habit will be confused. If I'm making a big change in my life, I want to do something every day, not a piddling three times a week.

The calendar mockup should change to at least one week with a full chain of Xs, so users won't get the subconscious impression that this app is incapable of helping them build a habit.

Besides repairing the subliminal messages of failure, adding a full chain of Xs opens another avenue for 'gamification'. What if when you completed a full week of an unbroken chain, you received some type of bonus points or prize? Of course, these prizes would be in the form of a cool UI animation.

Also, it's 2012: have you ever heard of a favicon?

[0]: http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...

Re: Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app

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Post by shadesandcolour »

You've done an awesome job with this. The UI is gorgeous and it looks like you didn't lose any functionality with it. I really can't think of anything to critique you on. It seems like most of the criticism on this thread is very minor nitpick-y things. Especially this business about the battery percentage and the alarm icon and not having a favicon for your website... Seriously guys, he's asking for some comments on the app, not the way that it's mocked up on the website. Keep on hacking kid.

Re: Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app

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Post by toyg »

rcknight wrote: post #6

Really like the app, when i searched in the app store i noticed there was another similar - "Habits pro" i think? Luckily for you that one is pretty ugly and more expensive! Feature suggestion: It would be nice to be able to keep track of things that need doing multiple times per day - the example featured on your website of "drink 8 glasses of water" would be more useful if i could come back into the app and log eac…

There's an app called "Water" which does that, btw.

Re: Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app

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Post by rimantas »

rcknight wrote: post #26
rimantas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well… http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

Well ok maybe that was a bad example (taken from the product site), but i still think there could be a use for "do this thing X times per day"

  > but i still think there could be a use for
  > "do this thing X times per day"
Absolutely. I am not arguing with this point.

Re: Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app

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Post by [deleted] »

maximegarcia wrote: post #21
nirvana wrote: post #13

Congrats! Building this has long been on my list of "rainy day projects". You've done a much better job of it, though, than I intended. One suggestion- I'd make a setting for letting you change the "Today" font from the handwriting one to a sans-serif one, like the rest of the app uses. I think the handwriting is very pretty and adds good production value, and so I'd keep it in the app, and certainly in the screensho…

I'd love to know what is this handwriting font. Anyone knows ?

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