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I loved reading Atomic Habits during the first lockdown. I was excited to try out its actionables, specially tracking to keep me honest. I tried a bunch of iOS

I loved reading Atomic Habits during the first lockdown. I was excited to try out its actionables, specially tracking to keep me honest. I tried a bunch of iOS apps, but wanted no friction, no tracking, no cloud, no social, etc. so eventually built https://flathabits.com https://flathabits.com. Also wanted to own my habit data (as plain text), so I made sure Flat Habits stored its data locally as an org file. I'm an Emacs nutter and can say the strength of a habit tracker lies in removing daily friction from the tracking process itself. The plain text part is cherry on top (bringing piece of mind around lock-in). In my case, it's been months since I looked at the plain text file itself. As for forming habits themselves (the actual goal)... it's been well over a year since I started running. I've kept it up since reading Atomic Habits (and started tracking).

emerongi 5y ago
Whoa, this is the app I've been looking for. Thank you so much. Every app under the sun now requires an account, has a friends list and stores data remotely. Please let me pay you for this app.
- xenodium 5y ago
  > Please let me pay you for this app. If you wanna send me money, you can buy my other app ;) https://plainorg.com https://plainorg.com
amd64 5y ago
I would love to use this. Android please :(
- xenodium 5y ago
  Sorry. It's a native iOS app.
_dain_ 5y ago
Is there an Android version of this? Looks really cool.
- xenodium 5y ago
  Thanks. Nice to hear there’s interest. Unfortunately, it’s a native iOS app. Android support is out of scope for me.
  - biinui 5y ago
    May I build the Android version? :)
auslegung 5y ago
I was thinking this looks a lot like Plain Org. Those Emacs users must have a shared iOS UX or something. Nope it’s the same developer. Great job!
- xenodium 5y ago
  Thank you :)
corobo 5y ago
> Optionally, you can save your habits to a shared location or cloud How do you do this bit? Is it documented anywhere? (or maybe I'm missing the obvious)
- xenodium 5y ago
  Try import in-place: https://xenodium.com/flat-habits-v101-org-import-menu https://xenodium.com/flat-habits-v101-org-import-menu
  - corobo 5y ago
    Aha! I tried the export menu didn't look at the import option Nice one :) For the sake of sharing I'm looking at setting it up the same as my Obsidian dir from here. Get it all chucked into git using the synced dir option in Working Copy, and a pair of Shortcuts to resync the git repo whenever I open/close the app (just the on close one if it doesn't play nicely with the file changing after opening the app) e.g. https://img.imgy.org/rAxr.jpg https://img.imgy.org/rAxr.jpg plus a shortcut triggered by app close to run this shortcut
throwaway123x2 5y ago
I too would love an android app.
- AncientPC 5y ago
  I've tried a few and this is my favorite habit tracker app on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits&hl=en_US&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha... Ad-free and FOSS: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits
  - throwaway123x2 5y ago
    Oo I'll give this a shot. Thanks so much!
tamiral 5y ago
I've been struggling in finding the right way to track my habits from apps to notepad. Thank you for this seems like it will definitely help me focus!

emerongi 5y ago

Whoa, this is the app I've been looking for. Thank you so much. Every app under the sun now requires an account, has a friends list and stores data remotely. Please let me pay you for this app.

xenodium 5y ago
> Please let me pay you for this app. If you wanna send me money, you can buy my other app ;) https://plainorg.com https://plainorg.com

amd64 5y ago

I would love to use this. Android please :(

xenodium 5y ago
Sorry. It's a native iOS app.

_dain_ 5y ago

Is there an Android version of this? Looks really cool.

xenodium 5y ago
Thanks. Nice to hear there’s interest. Unfortunately, it’s a native iOS app. Android support is out of scope for me.
- biinui 5y ago
  May I build the Android version? :)

auslegung 5y ago

I was thinking this looks a lot like Plain Org. Those Emacs users must have a shared iOS UX or something. Nope it’s the same developer. Great job!

xenodium 5y ago
Thank you :)

corobo 5y ago

> Optionally, you can save your habits to a shared location or cloud How do you do this bit? Is it documented anywhere? (or maybe I'm missing the obvious)

xenodium 5y ago
Try import in-place: https://xenodium.com/flat-habits-v101-org-import-menu https://xenodium.com/flat-habits-v101-org-import-menu
- corobo 5y ago
  Aha! I tried the export menu didn't look at the import option Nice one :) For the sake of sharing I'm looking at setting it up the same as my Obsidian dir from here. Get it all chucked into git using the synced dir option in Working Copy, and a pair of Shortcuts to resync the git repo whenever I open/close the app (just the on close one if it doesn't play nicely with the file changing after opening the app) e.g. https://img.imgy.org/rAxr.jpg https://img.imgy.org/rAxr.jpg plus a shortcut triggered by app close to run this shortcut

throwaway123x2 5y ago

I too would love an android app.

AncientPC 5y ago
I've tried a few and this is my favorite habit tracker app on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits&hl=en_US&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha... Ad-free and FOSS: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits
- throwaway123x2 5y ago
  Oo I'll give this a shot. Thanks so much!

tamiral 5y ago

I've been struggling in finding the right way to track my habits from apps to notepad. Thank you for this seems like it will definitely help me focus!