Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS

Great that you finally found what's working for you!

You can add a note with each habit completion, by pressing a day on the habit detail screen ;)

Cool, if we could by hour I can replace my CBT tracker !

Ultimately I don't think you will ever be able to rely on technology to validate authenticity . Even if you had a live human expert checking you off, you could still feel you didn't really give your all even though they were satisfied. There is no such thing as being able to objectively verify that you fully engaged in the spirit of a thing.

I also think your thinking on tick marks is backwards. If you're struggling to "fully do" a goal, you should absolutely be giving yourself tick marks. That way the desire to to maintain the streak helps keep you in the rhythm. Habit trackers aren't trying to "perfectly record your activities" - they use psychology to push you into building a habit. Once you get into the stage where the habit is established but you want to push yourself - then you get into detailed food and workout journaling that will let you track intensity over time. But if you aren't making it to the gym the intensity doesn't matter yet.

I’m releasing something similar but auto-logged based on Apple Health history.

Feel free to email me via this site if anyone wants to TestFlight it.. I’m currently rebuilding the UI but the next release should be available for testing in the next week.

https://teamvagner.com/streak-life/

At least Atomic Habits says it's more important to show up. Like a good way to start a running habit is just to put on your shoes every day even if you don't run.

So here just going to the gym could be enough to check of the box for the habit, rather than say you failed if you don't do the whole 25 minutes or you feel like you wasted time at the gym.

You of course can build on top but it's good to have that fallback minimum.

You're gonna do better at building the habit working out for 1 minute per day than 7 days in a row for 60 minutes, a few times a year.

i would say, be generous with yourself in terms of tracking showing up at all since that alone is huge (and most important for sustaining the behavior). if you notice that you're slipping and showing up late too often, maybe create another habit for being on time?

i don't understand the rationale behind cheating one's own self improvement journal. what's the end game?

Follow-up: Would also love a Rewards tab attached to a certain amount of growth in the habit-score Ala Habitica but with real-world rewards. Great setup so far though!

Highly recommend Habit. Been my go to since the past 4y or so

I didnt even need to open the link, a ghibli-generated profile pic already says so much about someone's priorities.

Yeah, I really think this should be the new universal standard. Mostly for respect reasons, but also going through and saying “what DOES my app actually do?” (which is something writing a README forces you to think about) is pretty much the minimal last line of defense attempt at quality control.

You can and probably should do more quality control than that, but it’s a reasonable assumption that if the initial landing document hasn’t been quality checked, the rest hasn’t either.

If the app is good the app is good. End of discussion

Why do you care how it was made? What’s next? It matters what country or city the developer is from or ahah language it’s written in or what machines were used or how the electric was sourced

Who cares!

Just to give a tip. It doesn’t unblock any feature :)