habit is a CLI tool for tracking and visualizing your habits.
What sets it apart from other task managers is its focus on habitual, repetitive tasks, as opposed to tasks that go away after completioni, offering a means to maintain, track, and visualize your progress on tasks that serve more long term, personal goals.
habit understands that some items need a little work every day, and seeing that progress grow is good motivation to keep that daily work up!
You can download the latest release for your platform here and place it somewhere on your PATH
or if you have go installed you can simply run
go get github.com/atallahhezbor/habit
Once installed, create a habit to track a goal. For example:
habit start 'Going for walks' --tag health --short walking
Track your progress on this habit with the following
habit tick walking
Visualize your progress like so
$ habit hist
Task |Ticks
walking |■|■|
and you'll see a symbol for each occurrence
Habit are input via CLI and tagged with a category.
It will make the most semantic sense for you to use a gerund phrase
Example: habit start 'Reaching out to friends' --tag social --short chatting
A tag will group the habit with other habits in the same tag when displayed.
A shortName is an optional shorter way to refer to the habit when updating it. If not supplied, the first word will be used.
Use a "tick" to track progress you've made toward a longterm goal / set of habits.
Example: habit tick chatting
Beautiful colorized visualizations of your progress are at the heart of this project! What better way to be proud of the progress you've made?
There are two ways to visualize, list and hist
Output all your habits, grouped and colorized by the tag you have assigned them, along with the time since you last ticked one.
Example: habit list
Output a "histogram" of sorts to show your dilligence towards all your habits. This is very naive currently. Proper aggregation is soon to come.
Example: habit hist
If you're at a loss for what to do, you can ask habit for a suggestion, and it'll output a random habit of yours
Example:
$ habit suggest
Hmm, you about you try listening to a new podcast?