Streaks

I saw Streaks mentioned on Giles Bowkett’s blog, and had to second his recommendation. That isn’t too surprising, since I bought it on his recommendation a few months ago. When it comes to forming new habits, I haven’t found a better way to keep motivated. I started using it to track every time I went to the gym, and it became addicting — I could see every gap and target the gaps to discover better ways of closing them. After a few months, the habit was there and I could switch to tracking a new habit.

I discovered early on that I could only really handle one calendar at a time — more than that and I would do things like forget to check each one off. I was only able to see the length of my current streak on the home screen, which made the other ones less prominent and easier to forget. As long as I can concentrate on a single habit at a time, though, Streaks has done an incredible job of allowing me to internalize practices that have already changed my life for the better.

The free version will probably work, but for a product that has literally changed my life, the full version was more than worth the money.