Build a daily habit tracker with Sunora

Habit trackers fail for two reasons: they ask too much, or they hide your progress until you forget why you started. A good system does the opposite - it makes today's tick-box obvious and your weekly trend impossible to miss. This guide builds that system inside Sunora using widgets that already work together: a daily checkbox grid, a weekly pattern view, a streak counter, and a quiet progress dashboard you visit on Sundays.

Pick the right habits first

Behaviour-change research is consistent on one point: the system you can repeat beats the system you intend to repeat. Before placing a single widget, write down three to five habits that meet two tests - they take less than ten minutes, and you can do them on a bad day. "Walk for forty minutes" rarely survives a rainy Tuesday; "step outside once" almost always does.

• Anchor the habit to an existing routine ("after my morning coffee").
• State it as an action, not an outcome ("write 200 words" beats "be a writer").
• Keep the bar low enough that you would feel silly skipping it.

Build the tracker

1. 1

   Open a planner dedicated to habits

   Create a fresh planner called "Habits". A dedicated surface stops your habit tracker from getting lost between meeting notes and shopping lists. Set the page background to a quiet pastel - habit work goes better with low visual noise.

2. 2

   Place the daily habit grid

   Drop the daily habit widget into the upper-left of the canvas. Add the three to five habits you wrote down. The widget renders one column per day and one row per habit - your job each morning is to fill the boxes. That is it.

3. 3

   Add a weekly view next to it

   Place the weekly habit widget beside the daily grid. The weekly view rolls up the same data and shows you patterns: which habits land on weekdays, which ones collapse on weekends, which ones are quietly fading. This is where insights start.

4. 4

   Pin a streak counter where you will see it

   Put the streak widget at the very top of the page, full-width if possible. Streaks are a motivation amplifier when used well - but only if you can see them without scrolling. Configure it to show your top two habits; more than that turns into noise.

5. 5

   Drop in a Sunday review block

   Below the trackers, add a habit progress widget - it aggregates the past four weeks. Schedule ten minutes every Sunday to look at it. Ask three questions: which habit is becoming automatic, which one keeps slipping, what is one tiny adjustment for the coming week? Write the answer in a note widget right next to it.

The widgets in this build

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