After several weeks of following courses and tutorials, I dove into making something of my own. Something that would actually be useful for me right now.
A little command line habit tracker.
Nothing fancy. Written in python, with habit data stored in a json file.
There's a menu, you pick what you want to do, it does the thing, and the menu pops up again, repeating until you decide to exit.
It's not fancy - I do plan to add some styling, and also add a function for displaying streaks. I'm also looking forward to using my own private copy of it to actually track my habits, and eventually have enough data to play with in a Jupyter notebook.
It's not the sort of program that's ever going to become the next big trending app. It's just a bitty thing tailored to my own life and what I want to work on - daily habit tracking - done in terminal so that I can just quickly log my habits without the sort of context-switching that leads to distractions.
I'm a newbie coder and it's a newbie project, but still super satisfying when it worked!
GwynneMichele
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command-line-habit-tracker
A basic command line habit tracker, built as a learning project. Something simple, but useful. For more info, check the README.
command-line-habit-tracker
Entry 1 - March 6, 2026
I'm a newbie programmer. I've been following courses and tutorials for game development and data analytics, and it's now time for me to move past tutorials into small, but useful, projects that I can develop from scratch with just a bit of AI assistance in the form of using Claude not to code for me, but to create tutorials for me to follow so that I can get more practice with thinking through how apps/games I develop should flow, building the logic and loops, getting the code working, and then gradually making improvments and adding new features.
This one is starting VERY basic. There's gonna be a menu, hard-coded list of habits, a basic JSON data structure, and the ability to add habits completed each day. Later versions will add more features, like being able to add and delete habits from the list…
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