pat781•1mo ago

My monthly habit tracker took me 4 hours to set up and I almost quit

I spent last Sunday designing a fancy habit tracker with 12 rows and color coded dots, but it took 4 hours because I kept overthinking the layout and redrawing lines. Has anyone else spent way too long on a simple spread that should have taken 30 minutes?

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aaron_mitchell1mo ago

Did the same thing with a workout log last month. Spent 3 hours getting the grid perfect with different colored pens. Only worked out twice that whole month.

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the_leo1mo ago

and honestly that tracker probably looks amazing even if it took forever. the color coded dots alone sound like a whole art project. i did the same thing with a reading log once, spent like 5 hours making little bookshelf drawings for each month and then read maybe 3 books total that year. the time sink is real because you get so caught up in making it perfect that you forget the whole point is to actually use the thing. but hey, at least you know your lines are straight now, that's gotta count for something.

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