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While I love these productivity tools -- if I might call a habit tracker that -- as much as the next person, I know myself well enough to know why it won't work
by omarhaneef 7y ago
While I love these productivity tools -- if I might call a habit tracker that -- as much as the next person, I know myself well enough to know why it won't work for me: the effort of entering in the data.
I have found that if it doesn't automatically extract the data, it will be hard to stick to as soon as I travel, or even experience a minor disruption in my schedule.
However, we have a bunch of gadgets: get the reading from my kindle, get the exercise from my fitbit, get the coding from github etc.
Why do I have to enter this stuff?
(Consider this a free idea for the HN community to exploit as you best see fit).
Edit: you might be able to do this with an IFTTT/Zapier type service hooked up to Google sheets.
- tmartty 7y agoThat would be interesting to see... it's a good point you make for the effort of entering the data BUT if you look at it from another perspective, actually entering the data is a way of showing and telling yourself 'look, you did it, you're doing great'. Otherwise it ends up being a dull dashboard you sometimes look at and maybe analyze. Which method is better it depends on the person I believe.
- omarhaneef 7y agoGood point. I wonder if one way around that is to have the output be your screen saver on your devices. It would be automatically update regularly without human intervention.