Build Habits: Try Easier

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About this app

Try Easier is a habit progression system, not just a habit tracker.

Standard habit trackers are just fancy logbooks for people who don't need much help building habits. Try Easier is built for the rest of us.

The strategy

Step 1: Set a goal that feels almost too easy.

Step 2: Prove it. Hit that goal consistently.

Step 3: Increase the goal by exceeding it regularly.

Why it works

Difficulty isn't a fixed fact about your habit, it's a dial, and you're the one holding it. Most people crank it to maximum on day one and wonder why nothing sticks. Turn it down, and the odds flip in your favor.

The easiest way to turn down your difficulty is to reduce your frequency. Meanwhile, our progression system ensures that you progress to your end goal at a pace you've earned.

Think of your new habit like a job:

The Hard Job: Rigid, demanding, and punishing when you slip.
The Easy Job: Flexible, low-pressure, and forgiving on a bad day.

You would demand a lot more pay to drag yourself into the hard job. In habit building, that payment is motivation.

When people feel unmotivated, it's often because they've created a demanding habit they don't enjoy, and they're asking too much of themselves too soon.

You are the boss

You get to make the rules, so create a habit that you know you can do every week. One that has as little dread and as much enjoyment as possible. Then show up for it regularly until you feel ready for more.

While it's forming: It's fragile. Protect it.
Once it's formed: It's durable. Now you can push as hard as you like.

Most people push hard from day one. That's why most habits die young.

The Floor and the Ceiling

Most apps give you one goal, so every week is a pass or a fail. Here, every habit has a range of success between two goals: the Floor and the Ceiling.

The Ceiling is yours to choose, and it rises once you've earned it.

The Floor is once a week, and it never moves. Show up once and the week is a win.

Between the Floor and the Ceiling, there is no failing week. There is just where you landed.

A major reason people quit is the pressure of falling behind. Knowing you need five sessions next week just to feel on track is exhausting. With a permanent Floor of one, showing up is always easy.

What's inside

Your routine, sorted by how often things happen:

Habits (Weekly): These are things you're trying to start or do more often every week. This is where the progression engine lives, helping you grow your habits over time.
Daily Goals (Daily): Water, protein, fiber, steps, distance, or anything you define with your own custom unit and target.
Hobbies (Whenever): They stay docked on your Horizon screen until you give them a date. Because "whenever" is exactly how fun things quietly disappear.
Events (One-offs): Concerts, trips, appointments, and birthdays. Get reminded on the day, or set multiple reminders to keep it on your mind.

When you have nothing to look forward to, life gets darker. The Horizon screen is there to brighten it, by helping you plan positive events. It's not a calendar for everything you don't want to do, but can't forget. It's a scheduling screen for all the good things that often slip your mind.

Who it's for

If you've downloaded a habit tracker before, stalled out, and deleted it, this was built for you.

If executive function costs you more than it seems to cost everyone else, whether that's ADHD or a smartphone-shaped attention span, this was built for you too.

If you're ready to try a new approach to habit formation, I invite you to Try Easier.