Background

As I’ve been doing my daily reading it come to my mind that perhaps I should build a habit tracker.

Today I’ve just reached chapter 2 of Atomic Habits, and the first chapter was about building systems instead of focusing on goals.

I think this would be a very good place to start.

The idea

Instead of making it a mobile app, I can make it a website.

1. You can log on and add a habit

2. You get a streak for logging the habit daily, with some points

3. Leaderboard so that it is fun to use In order for the leaderboard to work effectively I’ll need to find some sort of scoring system, perhaps streaks + (time * number of times habit was performed)

I could add a clock where you have to stay on the app or site for the habit to be tracked (this might be a little trickier)

Very simple app, this will probably take me 2-3 days.

Reservations

I had initially planned to build the tungsten-gains app. However, an easier app to implement might be the way to go to build momentum.

Although it could be a trap and lead me to not finishing any project at all. Let’s see where I will be next week.