Building · Reading More
A reading habit tracker that cares about the habit, not the book count
Reading goals fail in a very particular way: you don't decide to stop, you just quietly read less each week until a bookmark has been on page 40 for two months. A yearly book target won't catch that, because it only measures at the end. What catches it is knowing which slot in your day the reading was supposed to occupy, and noticing the third night in a row it didn't.
Why reading more is hard to track
Not hard to do — that's a separate problem. These are the reasons the tracking itself tends to give out first, which is usually what takes the habit with it.
- Annual book targets give no signal until it's far too late to correct
- The habit is a time slot, and it's usually lost to a phone rather than abandoned
- A book you're not enjoying stalls the habit and gets blamed on discipline
- Ten good minutes and a distracted hour count the same in most trackers
Worth tracking
- Minutes read, and at what time of day
- Which book, and whether it's moving
- What you did instead on the nights you didn't
- Format — paper, ebook, audio — since they behave differently
Cadence
Logged at the end of a session, usually at night
What progress looks like
Fourteen consecutive nights, and the first book finished inside three weeks
In practice
Log it in the sentence you'd have said anyway
Every operation in the app is a tool the chat can call, so reading more gets recorded — with its context — in the time it takes to think it.
Called 4 tools
log_check_in(habit: "reading", minutes: 30, book: "Le Carré")get_streak(habit: "reading")get_progress(book: "Le Carré")compare_periods(metric: "minutes", a: "this_month", b: "last_month")
Every figure here was counted from your check-ins. The model picked the tools and filled in the arguments — it never estimates a streak or invents a number.
And then ask
The question your history can answer
Weeks of check-ins about reading more contain a genuine answer to questions you've been guessing at. The only thing that was ever missing was something willing to read them.
Ask in plain language; the model turns it into queries against your record and shows the numbers behind the answer, so you can tell a real pattern from a coincidence in eleven data points.
Called 3 tools
get_history(habit: "reading", window: "6m")find_pattern(group_by: "context")compare_periods(metric: "completion")
Every figure is a count or an average over your own check-ins. The model chose which comparisons to run; it produced none of the numbers.
What it does
Set up around reading more
The same mechanics as every other habit, pointed at what actually matters for this one.
Targets per week, not per day
Three a week is a real goal and a daily checkbox can't hold it. Rest days get recorded as rest rather than counted as failures.
Streaks that survive a life
A missed day is a missed day. The streak that matters is the pattern over months, and one interruption shouldn't erase the evidence of it.
Partial credit
Ten minutes still counts, and gets logged as ten minutes. Half-measures are how most habits actually survive a bad week.
What predicts the days you show up
Which book, and whether it's moving — captured alongside the tick, because that's where the explanation for a good month usually turns out to be.
Measured against your other habits
Ask whether this one is propping up another, or being crowded out by it. Cross-habit questions on request.
Caught at day three
A gap is recoverable early and much less so at three weeks. One nudge when it's still the former.
Early access
Start with reading more
Tell us where it's gone wrong before and we'll set it up with you — measuring the right thing, at a cadence you'll keep.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock, no streak-guilt notifications
- Export everything you've logged whenever you want
Also building
Other habits people track
Track reading more by talking about it
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