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TIL a coffee shop barista showed me how to track habits without tracking them

I was sitting at a local shop downtown sketching out my usual habit tracker columns when the barista handed me my order. She glanced at my notebook and said she just uses a tiny dot in each box instead of a full X or color. Tried it that afternoon and it takes half the time now, plus I can see trends way easier without all the ink. Has anyone else found a tiny tweak that totally shifted how they lay out their weekly spread?
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cooper.max
Whoa, hold up. I gotta say I'm genuinely shocked you were using actual X marks before. Like, the thought of filling in a whole column with big fat X's sounds exhausting to me now. The dot thing is low-key brilliant, it's wild that something that simple never crossed my mind. I just tried it on my weekly layout and it honestly feels cleaner and way less cluttered.
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betty_barnes
Honestly, did using dots change how often you actually check your weekly layout?
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