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Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

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Post by superultra »

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 platform.

I’ve been really loving Llamalife - https://llamalife.co - they don’t do habits but they organize a lot of the schema around people who get overwhelmed easily.

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

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Post by stared »

Thank you for sharing - especially with the green flag of "no account required"!

I wanted to go habit tracing in a minimalist way, and ended up using checkboxes in Obsidian daily notes (and take them anyway, previously in Evernote) and plugins (there are a few, I use a combination of https://github.com/pyrochlore/obsidian-tracker and https://github.com/hedonihilist/obsidian-habit-calendar).

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

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Post by thih9 »

superultra wrote: post #41

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…

After reading this comment I installed llamalife and immediately abandoned it when it asked me to sign up and accept T&Cs as the first thing after opening. There was no support for sign in with apple either.

I love that the app from this HN submission is usable without creating an account.

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

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Post by georgebcrawford »

8organicbits wrote: post #15

I'm always up late and I'd like to get a last minute habit checked off before I go to bed, but so many tools move to the next day at midnight. I ended up building my own minimal chore tracker[1] because I couldn't find any that aligned to that schedule. I really think everyone has slightly different needs and chore/habit trackers make a great minimal programming+design project. [1] https://alexsci.com/blog/personal-a…

Hi there, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog post - especially the part about single-purpose software. It's a recurring tension in my digital/physical existence.

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

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Post by criddell »

This is really nicely done. It looks great and is very responsive. I have some things I track that aren’t daily so it doesn’t work for me, but I like that you didn’t build an app with a billion options.

Are you on the free plan for Dexie? How many users do you think you can support with the 100MB limit?

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

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Post by codazoda »

I've been working on a minimalist daily habit tracker that I designed for counting calories as part of my own weight loss journey. It's called Quick Calories. The PWA is free, it doesn't require an account, has no advertising, and works offline.

Link: [https://calories.joeldare.com]

Re: Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

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Post by FrancoisBosun »

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.

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