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Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by xenodium on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:34AM (#29779332)
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. 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).

Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by emerongi on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:13AM (#29779596)
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.

Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by xenodium on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:38AM (#29781176)
> Please let me pay you for this app.

If you wanna send me money, you can buy my other app ;) https://plainorg.com

Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by auslegung on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:06AM (#29780865)
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!
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by xenodium on Monday January 03, 2022 @10:04AM (#29781419)
Thank you :)
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by amd64 on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:07AM (#29779931)
I would love to use this. Android please :(
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by xenodium on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:40AM (#29781191)
Sorry. It's a native iOS app.
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by tamiral on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:17PM (#29827453)
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!
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by corobo on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:39AM (#29782609)
> 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)

Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by xenodium on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:59AM (#29782907)
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by corobo on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:10PM (#29788409)
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 plus a shortcut triggered by app close to run this shortcut

Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by _dain_ on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:30AM (#29780581)
Is there an Android version of this? Looks really cool.
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by xenodium on Monday January 03, 2022 @10:58AM (#29782059)
Thanks. Nice to hear there’s interest. Unfortunately, it’s a native iOS app. Android support is out of scope for me.
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by biinui on Sunday January 09, 2022 @07:52AM (#29862800)
May I build the Android version? :)
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by throwaway123x2 on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:30PM (#29785218)
I too would love an android app.
Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by AncientPC on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:07PM (#29786907)
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.uha...

Ad-free and FOSS: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits

Re:Summary of Atomic Habits by throwaway123x2 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @09:12AM (#29794909)
Oo I'll give this a shot. Thanks so much!