Easy, Free Tool for Tracking Habits

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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

I’ve always kept a journal…well, since first grade, anyway.  I look back on those childhood diaries and wonder who that person was.  My adult journaling has been a lot more erratic than my childhood and teen journaling and the days usually fly by without my taking the time to make notes on them.

I’ve used online journals before, but the sites ended up going under (I did retrieve my entries before they did).

I’d heard about the free app Daylio (for Apple and Android) a while back, but because it was mostly billed as a mood tracker, I didn’t really take a closer look at it.  My moods are fairly even (and since I’ve been using Daylio, Daylio has backed this up).   But I think this could be incredibly useful to anyone who is trying to track moods because you can report all the activities you participated in on the excellent/good/bad day and see patterns. Maybe you have an especially good day when you fit in exercise and writing, or you have an especially bad day when you didn’t get enough sleep, etc.Continue reading

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