Habit tracker widget for the new tab page

Goal days and skip days

Two numbers define a tracker: how many days you’re aiming for, and how many you’re allowed to miss. That second number is why the thing survives contact with real life, an all-or-nothing streak dies on the first bad week and takes the habit with it.

Seventy days with ten skips is the usual shape. Miss ten and you still finish. Miss eleven and you don’t. That’s precisely the right amount of pressure.

Marking days and skip reminders

One click marks today. The tracker keeps your start date, your completed days and how much of the skip allowance is gone.

Skip reminders speak up when you’re burning through that allowance faster than the calendar is moving. That’s the useful moment to intervene, while the goal is still reachable.

Finishing, and failing

Reach the goal and you get an animated GIF. One of ten, never the same one twice running. Burn through the skips and it tells you that too, and the only way forward is Try again, which puts the counters back to zero.

That reset matters as much as the confetti. A tracker that quietly rolls over after a bad week has taught you the number was never real.

One habit, or several

One tracker free. PRO removes the cap, and in practice that’s what people upgrade for. One tracker is an experiment, four is a routine, exercise, reading, Spanish, no-phone-after-eleven.

Stack them in a column with a count up beside them showing total days since you started, and the page becomes the only progress report you need.

Habit Tracker settings

• Title — Names the habit — shown on the widget.
• Goal days — How many days you’re committing to.
• Skip days — How many misses the goal tolerates before it counts as lost.
• Start date — Set when you create the tracker; everything else is counted from it.
• Skip reminders — Warn when the skip allowance is running out; can be switched off from the reminder itself.
• Celebration — One of ten animated GIFs when you reach the goal, never repeating back to back.
• Ring style — The circle around the tracker is the widget border setting, colour, thickness, solid, dashed or dotted.
• Multiple trackers — One on the free plan; unlimited on PRO.

What people use it for

• Exercise, running or gym attendance.
• Daily language practice or instrument practice.
• Reading a set number of pages a day.
• Quitting, smoking, sugar, late-night scrolling.
• Writing streaks: a thesis chapter, a newsletter, a journal.