You have kept a streak before. Somewhere around day nine you started logging the habit after the fact — the tap standing in for the thing itself — and by day twenty the only part still alive was the number.
I did that for years, so I built the opposite rule: the streak has to be evidenced. One Minute Magic asks for up to three habits, sixty seconds each, and a photograph of the minute you actually did it. Not a tick box. A photo. The app's own wording, which I am quoting rather than paraphrasing: "pick up to three habits, do sixty seconds of each, and photograph the minute you did — so the streak you are keeping is one you can trust."
Why sixty seconds
Because the bar has to be low enough that a bad day cannot excuse it, and the record has to be strong enough that a good week cannot inflate it. The app never asks for more than 60 seconds. What compounds is the streak of showing up, not the size of the effort.
Why three habits, not thirty
A tracker that accepts thirty habits is a tracker you abandon in February. Three is what a person can hold while the rest of life happens.
What it does not do
- No feed, no leaderboard, no streak you can protect by tapping twice.
- The free tier is three habits and no card, and your record stays on your device.
- It is new, and it is quiet. All thirty launch places are still open as I write this — I checked the live counter before publishing. There are no reviews to quote, because the first thirty people have not arrived yet.
The offer, as the live page states it
Free to the first 30 people at launch: unlimited habits for one year including the One Minute Magic ebook. No card, no payment, nothing to cancel.
After those thirty places: the ebook is US$12.90, a personalised gift cover is US$4.90, and the app for six months is US$14.90. I would rather you took a free place than bought anything tonight.
Claim one of the thirty places: https://oneminutemagic.app/free/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=omm_harness
If you have ever ended a year with the same habit you started it with, sixty seconds is a smaller ask than you think — and a photograph of those sixty seconds is the one part of the record you cannot fake.
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