HabitKit

The clean and simple habit tracker • Available for iOS and Android

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Get HabitKit - The minimalistic habit tracker

➕ Build new habits and track your progress
🟪 Beautiful tile-based grid visualisation
📈 Statistics
✉️ Share
📆 Calendar
📦 Data import/export

Available for iOS and Android: https://t.co/74L1dCF33C

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3. Then add a little each day: 5 pages, 10, 15, until you're back at 20.

Small today beats perfect on Monday.

Source: Buyalskaya et al. (2023), PNAS, 30,110 gym-goers.

Which habit are you restarting?

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Missed a few days of your habit? Here's how to restart, in 3 steps.

1. Don't wait for Monday. Waiting can turn 3 missed days into 7.
2. Restart today, small. Even 2 pages count.

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Read 20 pages a day?

That's 7,300 pages a year, about 24 books of 300 pages.

Skip one day a week and it's still 20 books.

Save this for your reading goal.
How many books did you read this year?

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Never get around to your habit?

Write one sentence: "When I pour my coffee, I'll stretch."

Across 642 tests, plans like this helped people follow through.

What moment would you pick?

Source: Sheeran, Listrom & Gollwitzer 2024

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@fyirdigital @SebastianRoehl Very soon!

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It works for any habit you put off. The rule: only enjoy it while you do it.

Sources: Milkman, Minson & Volpp (2014), Management Science; Kirgios et al. (2020), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

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Save your favourite audiobook for the gym. Two studies tested it, here's what happened.

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Implemented another "most-requested" feature: Different options to visualize "off"-days and "goal-met"-days in the grid of @habitkit 👌

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Missed a few days of your habit?

Don't wait for Monday. In data from 30,110 gym-goers, the longer the gap, the less likely most of them went back.

Restart today, even small. Small today beats perfect on Monday.

Source: Buyalskaya et al. 2023, PNAS

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Can't make yourself go to the gym?

Listen to your audiobook only at the gym. In one study, gym visits rose 51% at first; a bigger study still found 10% more workouts months later.

The rule: only enjoy it while you do it.

Sources: Milkman et al. 2014, Kirgios et al. 2020

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The next @HabitKit update will be awesome. Incorporating a huge amount of user feedback I gathered over the past couple of years! This will be the BEST habit tracking app out there 💯

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One month off. Does it last?

4 weeks off Facebook: a month later, people reported using it 22% less than those who stayed on.

Dry January: people drank less 6 months later, even those who slipped.

Sources: Allcott et al. 2020 (AER), de Visser et al. 2016

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Plan your skip days before you need them: in studies, goals with a few planned skips kept people going longer, even after a slip.

Source: Sharif & Shu (2017), Journal of Marketing Research

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Don't wait for January. Start one habit today and you're 12 weeks in by New Year: the five parts of a habit, drawn out. Send it to someone who's waiting for January.

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@aniqatc Thank you! Let us know if you have any problems or questions :)

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See your habits add up. One tap a day, one square for every day you show up.

Look back a month when you need proof it's working. Write one line on the days that were hard. Check your numbers once a week.

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Implementing a killer feature for the next https://t.co/JugcX6gEQT update: Automatic iCloud backups. Users have been waiting for this for so long now, sorry about that!

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So don't quit on day 22: give a new habit two months before you judge it.

Sources: Lally et al. (2010), European Journal of Social Psychology; Gardner, Lally & Wardle (2012), British Journal of General Practice.

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Where "21 days to build a habit" came from, and what the research found instead.

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HabitKit 1.18.1 is live on the App Store! Now you choose what happens to completed habits. Tap the filter button at the top right of the overview and pick one:
• Show in place: everything stays where it is, like before.
• Sort to bottom: finished habits move below the ones still open. Check one off and it moves down a moment later.
• Hide: finished habits disappear for the rest of the day and come back tomorrow. "Show completed" lets you see them any time.