The habits that actually stuck

I'd tried half a dozen habit trackers before building this one. They all worked for about two weeks, then quietly died because checking them off felt disconnected from everything else I was doing.

What actually stuck was putting habits on the same dashboard as my daily notes and goals — so marking "Gym" done in the morning is right next to today's note and this week's goal progress, not buried in a separate app I had to remember to open.

The streak counter helps too, but it's the proximity to everything else that made the habit, not the gamification.