About.

Why I built this

I'm a developer who spent years trying every productivity system out there — Notion trackers, habit apps, bullet journals, the works. Most of them were either too complex, too generic, or designed for people whose biggest daily challenge is choosing between hot yoga and journaling.

None of them understood that my "morning routine" starts with git pull, that my biggest health challenge is remembering to stand up, or that "deep work" means something very specific when you're debugging a race condition at 2pm.

So I built BetterHabitsDaily — a simple habit tracker with developer-focused presets, lightweight XP gamification, and a blog that writes about habits the way developers actually experience them. No wellness influencer energy. No subscription walls. Just practical tools and advice.

What you'll find here

• A free habit tracker that runs entirely in your browser. No account needed. Add your own habits or pick from developer-focused presets.
• XP and daily challenges to keep things interesting without turning habit tracking into a second job.
• Weekly blog posts on deep work, morning routines, exercise for desk workers, and other topics that actually matter to developers.

How I research and write

Habits sit close to health, and bad advice there has a real cost — so the writing here holds to a few rules:

• Primary sources, not recycled blog posts. Factual claims link to peer-reviewed research, government data, or large-scale developer surveys — the original source, not someone else repeating the same number.
• Myths get called out. When a popular statistic doesn't hold up — the "21 days to form a habit" line is the classic — I say so and show what the evidence actually supports.
• Experience is labeled as experience. I test the habits I write about before recommending them. Where something is my opinion or what worked for me, I say that plainly instead of dressing it up as science.
• Posts get updated. When better data comes out, articles are revised — and the publish or updated date is shown on every one.

The tech

This site is built with Astro, React, and Tailwind CSS. The habit tracker is a client-side React component using localStorage — your data stays on your device. The blog uses MDX content collections. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

Have feedback or ideas? I'd love to hear from you — drop me a line at hello@betterhabitsdaily.com .