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First Week
Starting a goal, setting up places and the first visits that count.
Articles
What counts as a visit in NoTestudo?
NoTestudo notices when you arrive at and leave the places in your goals. What counts, what looks like passing by, and how to fix a visit the app got wrong.
GuideGo more, go less: one week, two directions
Some goals are about showing up more. Some are about showing up less. How to set up both around real places, starting with the gym.
MagazineWhy habit logs fall apart by Wednesday
Most habit trackers only know what you tell them. Why the logging tends to stop right when the week gets hard, and what a record that keeps itself looks like.
Magazine
Community posts
Community preview: example posts, updated daily, show the kind of updates members share in the NoTestudo app.
Groceries twice a week, two weeks in
Two weeks of hitting my grocery goal. I’m cooking more and ordering less, and the streak badge is very cute.
Healthy EatingFirst week of “walk in the park 4x” done
I picked the park near my apartment and set the goal to four walks a week. Hit four. I didn’t realize how much I needed to just be outside.
OutdoorsMy home coffee setup cost under $30
A cheap pour-over cone, paper filters, a bag of beans from the grocery store and a $9 kettle. That’s it. Two weeks of making it at home before class. My Money saved card says $41 so far, which is a lot of coffee.
Coffee RunsWent to a club meeting alone for the first time
My goal this month is “see people in person twice a week,” and I’d been counting the same two friends over and over. So I went to a board game club meeting by myself. I almost left in the first five minutes. I stayed for two hours. Someone taught me a game I’m still thinking…
SocialFirst week under my fast food limit
My goal is fast food at most once a week. Did it once, on Friday, with friends, and enjoyed every bite. It was never about zero. It was about choosing it.
Fast FoodThree gym visits this week and I didn’t log a single one
First week my gym goal hit 3 of 3, and I never opened the app at the gym. The visits just showed up on their own. Honestly the best part was not having one more thing to remember. Next goal: keep it going through midterms.
FitnessFirst week, and I already know my hard spot
First week of my goal. On day three I realized my whole problem is the twenty minutes between my last class and the bus, right next to the vape shop. So I’m trying to fill those twenty minutes: the library, coffee with a friend, anything.
Vaping