Found a mistake in my old journal spreads that clicked after 6 months

I spent like a year doing daily logs with tons of color coding and fancy trackers... then I flipped back to my first 3 pages from last February and realized I never even looked at half those collections again. A health tracker I made for sleep data was completely blank after week two. What tipped me off was finding a spread about "books to read" with only 1 title written in it. Does anyone else feel like they overcomplicate stuff when a simple list would work better?

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sarah_hart13d ago

Right? I spent hours making a 47-step skincare tracker that I never touched again.

jesse_williams6212d ago

Man, Sarah_hart you hit the nail on the head! I did the SAME thing with a meal planner that had all these sections for macros and prep times, and I think I used it twice before tossing it. It's like we get so caught up in making it LOOK good that we forget it's supposed to actually HELP us do something.

richard_anderson13d ago

Agree with you there. If a tracker is too detailed, you end up spending more time on the system than on the actual habit you're trying to build.