Rant: I finally stopped adding a weekly habit tracker to my bujo

I spent 4 months tracking things like "drink water" and "floss" in a fancy grid and never once looked back at it. Last week I just started writing the habits in my daily log with a check mark and it actually works better for me. Anyone else ditch dedicated trackers for just keeping it in the dailies?

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harperp242d ago

@nina_taylor you mentioned flipping through pages to find where you wrote stuff down - how long are your dailies taking you each day with that dedicated tracker? Like, is it a quick fill-in or does it turn into a whole production? I tried the month grid thing and found myself spending 10 minutes just making it pretty instead of actually checking things off. Curious if the visual payoff is worth the time investment for you.

nina_taylor2d ago

Agree to disagree on this one. I found that keeping everything in a dedicated tracker was the only way I actually stuck with my habits for more than a week. When it's just a checkmark in my daily log I forget to look at it and my habits fall apart by Wednesday. The visual of a whole month's progress in one place is what keeps me going. Plus flipping through pages to find where I wrote down "drink water" from Tuesday gets old fast. I need that quick glance to see if I'm slacking or killing it.

bailey.jennifer2d ago

My buddy tried that and said the tracker guilt made him drink 8 glasses a day for exactly one week. Then he quit everything.