Hi, there community!
So once I’ve stumbled upon the Kickstarter project by Simone Giertz named “The Every Day Calendar”, which is a nice habit way of visualization you struggle to build a habit.
I completely bought the idea but not the implementation (with big respect for the author on the other hand).
It’s not smart and it lacks integration capabilities. So I decided to build my own visual habit track system.
However, as I don’t know how to code I build it in a very ignorant way.
If you are courage, dare to read here:
So keeping things short, I’ve used the app Pushcut that sends me a rich notification with the option of which habits I want to log. Then it triggers IFTTT and it adds a row in a specific google spreadsheet. A few habits are based on ios health data (sleep time start and duration) so Pushcut activates an ios shortcut that logs out health data via IFTTT with webhook and then to the google spreadsheet.
Then the other (optional) spreadsheet makes this data more or less a fancy graph.
Why this is cool? Because I can use it as an iframe to put the graph as a chrome new tab or put it into a dashboard (I used to use https://dakboard.com/, but now I bailed on it). This way I could see the progress all the time which is a huge motivation for me.
Definitely, it’s not the most elegant way to implement the idea, but this is what happening when you are can’t code.
Yet, lately, I get acquainted with Hassio, felt how awesome it is to make things smart, and work together.
So my current wet idea is to use MAX7219 or any other led matrix as a display – each individual led is a day.
You log a habit status via custom-built notifications or by importing it from some habit tracker that could do that and voila! Plus one led now is glowing. You can make each row of the matrix as a tracker for a separate habit or whole board as a “365” days tracker.
That’s it.
First of all, is there a way how can I build that without coding, please share your ideas.
Secondly, I would glad to hear general feedback on the idea. Is it resonate with somebody? Or I’m alone who has such a problem and a solution? If I do not, please share your ways how you deal with your habit tracking in “hassio way”.