Thursday, July 22, 2010

How it works

Habit Droid aims to address the biggest obstacle that busy individuals face in developing new habits: long-term consistency. It is based on the idea that because our phones are always with us, the phone is the best platform for consistency-based productivity software.

Here is a typical use case for Habit Droid:

1) The user inputs the habits he or she would like to develop. I.e. to go to the gym every weekday, and to study for a certification every Saturday.

2) Every day, Habit Droid reminds the user of the habits that he or she needs to enforce on that day.

3) The user then inputs whether he or she has enforced each habit on that day.

Habit Droid shows the user a graph representing the long-term history of each habit. It also provides a day-by-day breakdown of the user's history. These features will help the user track his or her consistency over the long-term.

This use case is based on my own struggles to improve my study habits. (And lots of informal consultations with the myriad stressed out University of Toronto Engineering Undergraduates :p)

Try it out! Hopefully it's useful to you. Give me any suggestions!

1 comment:

  1. Hey HTC Hero, got random FCs - likely DB related; seems to happen once, and I can then restart the app. Here's the logcat output from the error.

    http://pastebin.com/4hdwkB0u

    I was hoping you could make this open source; I see there's only a free version anyway so there's no money being made - I wanted to improve the UI (for my personal use, but I could send you any changes I make) when I had some time.

    Thanks :)

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