# Habit tracking within Discourse...is it possible?

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**Created:** [November 21, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/habit-tracking-within-discourse-is-it-possible/170824 "2020-11-21T02:15:24Z")\
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I can picture a few different workflows that might work…@manuel’s suggestion is a little clunky but does a good job of not requiring any code we don’t already have.

In my ideal world, each student would have a habit tracker topic in a category set aside for that purpose. Anyone could comment on that topic, but only the author could tick off the tracker items.

Each kid would have 1-5 habits tracking at a time, and a series of dates (we’d start a new topic each month for management’s sake). Each day, they can register a “hit” (success), a “miss” (failed for the day), or enter nothing (no info). Hopefully it would be pretty easy, like clicking a button per habit.

The topic would show streaks and totals per habit in some attractive way, and I could set up some fun badges like “7 consecutive check-ins” (hit or miss, any habit), “30 consecutive check-ins”, “7-day streak” (7 hits in a row on the same habit), and so on.

@osioke I like Tiny Habits…that’s part of the model we’ll be using. After failing to find a book that’s aimed at this age range and reading level, I ended up adapting material mostly from Stronger, Faster, Better and Atomic Habits, which includes the Fogg model as a subset.

It’s all a challenge so far…but we’re working on it and I appreciate any advice you all can share. Keep the ideas coming! The plan is to introduce habit-building as our December “Big Idea” and then do weekly habit check-ins throughout the rest of the program from mid-December forward. I expect it all to evolve along the way.

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