Flat Habits Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

  - https://xenodium.com/an-ios-journaling-app-powered-by-org-plain-text - Lately, I'm having a go at building a privacy-focused plain-text-based iOS journaling app. I starte building it for someone important in my life but now using it myself. - https://flathabits.com - After reading Atomic Habits, I wanted a habit tracker but most had more friction than I wanted, required accounts, had distractions, lock-in etc.... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Todo apps are meant for robots

  After reading "Atomic Habits", I tried a bunch of iOS habit trackers and none of them worked for me. They often wanted me to log in, had a social component, a game, analytics, or some form of lock-in. In the end, I built my own without any of this: https://flathabits.com. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

  - A ChatGPT shell that integrates well into my editor of choice https://xenodium.com/chatgpt-shell-available-on-melpa - A scriptable screenshot/video capture utility https://xenodium.com/recordscreenshot-windows-the-lazy-way - An iOS habit tracker that's neither cloud-based, nor needs an account, social, wants my attention, data, etc. https://flathabits.com - An iOS scratch pad that removes further friction than... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Emacs lovers, fancy a *scratch* buffer for your iPhone, sprinkled with org-mode list items? It’s coming…

  Not quite. https://plainorg.com and https://flathabits.com both get daily downloads. Source: about 1 year ago

• [Advice] "Atomic Habits: 4 Steps to Transform Your Life!"

  After reading Atomic Habits, I built my own tracker for iOS https://flathabits.com It’s straight to the point, skipping the nonsense. No accounts, login, social, analytics, lock-in, stealing your attention… Privacy-oriented and frictionless. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What do you want in a habit tracker?

  I built a habit tracker https://flathabits.com to scratch an itch. I really wanted to do the right thing for the users. The driving principles were as follows: - Privacy. These are your personal habits (and they stay on your phone). I want zero access to your data. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: Hyper minimalist habit tracker for Chrome

  A little closer to Apple Watch … https://flathabits.com on iOS disclosure: I’m the author. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Extending org-mode to handle YouTube links

  > bounced off org-mode due to it's limitations (e.g. Mobile apps for it suck) I'm the author of an org iOS app https://plainorg.com and the vast majority of users are pretty happy. Org has a rich feature-set and we are a diverse bunch who like to tinker, so mileage may vary. ps. I also authored https://flathabits.com which saves habit data to org format. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

  Org is becoming more accessible outside of Emacs. A handful of us are working on it. I built two apps for iOS: https://flathabits.com https://plainorg.com There are other org-based tools out there. https://BrainTool.org https://logseq.com https://orgzly.com https://beorg.app https://easyorgmode.com https://organice.200ok.ch https://orgro.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• I built a dictionary app even with more than and300 apps available at AppStore

  > No Lock-in This principle comes from the local-first software movement: users taking back data ownership so they can export and manipulate what they have created. I’d love for this to become a well-recognised badge of honor, bringing more visibility to lesser known tools. I built a couple of iOS apps that happen to use org as their portable file format. The fact that its org is less relevant. The iOS apps... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”

  FWIW, I built an iOS app for this sorta thing https://flathabits.com (fully offline, no server, no ads, no sign in, no social, data is all yours). - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Any plans to implement agenda view?

  Building an agenda view is a biggie as it's somewhat equivalent to building a calendar app. I learned a bit via https://flathabits.com which has a daily view for habits. Building a truly mobile and useful experience there took quite a few iterations and effort (for habits alone). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Org habit all time graph

  Sorry, not an Emacs solution but if you are on iOS, https://flathabits.com displays the entire history. Disclosure: I’m the author. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Tools for Thought need a standard for data interop. It should be Org-Mode

  There are no shortages of markdown-powered tools out there. Org has a handful of great tools (outside of Emacs). I’d love to see the list grow. Org is so versatile, it can power so many use-cases. If you’re an org fan, get the word out and help promote these projects in any way you can: https://BrainTool.org https://logseq.com https://plainorg.org https://orgzly.com https://flathabits.com https://beorg.app... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Org Habits and Rewards

  I built an iOS app around org habits which keeps track of streaks and commitment https://flathabits.com. Source: about 2 years ago

• Redesigning an App, One Day a Week at a Time

  Nice to see. In https://flathabits.com I also arrived to a similar presentation of today vs not today (for me, today vs all habits). For a habits app, I was ruthlessly simplifying things to remove friction and distractions from the tracking process. Either of these can easily throw you off, resulting in a bigger problem (giving up on your habits). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site

  Https://xenodium.com All posts are written to a giant org file. https://github.com/xenodium/xenodium.github.io/blob/master/index.org This wasn’t by design but more accidental. The file started as my notes, and eventually exported it to html as a single page (using built-in export). That page grew too large over time, so I wrote some custom elisp code to split into multiple html pages served by GitHub pages:... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Show HN: I gamified a habit tracker to fight procrastination

  I built one for iOS https://flathabits.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

  You can get quite far with it. I’ve used https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html when implementing lots of https://plainorg.com and https://flathabits.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Plaintext Productivity

  > Orgmode is awesome but it's frustratingly difficult to use outside Emacs Ah yes. I get the Emacs part putting some folks off. Org markup is super capable and stands on its own merit. I’d love for it to be more independently recognised, spurring a rich and diverse ecosystem of org-powered tools (outside of Emacs). I’m scratching my own itch for iOS but also taking feature requests along the way :)... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Plaintext Productivity

  Plain text can be super versatile (task-tracking and note-taking are great examples), but equally important are the guarantees that your content is truly yours (no lock-in). With all these plain text posts surfacing regularly, I'd love for the lesser-known org markup (https://orgmode.org) to gain more adoption. It's a real power-house. Its Emacs origin may put some off, but it's plain text, so your content can be... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago