Description

After a lot of trial and error, I’ve landed on a 2-part Obsidian-based habit tracking system: 1) a simple custom callout in my Daily Note for marking habits as complete, and 2) a custom Canvas dashboard for visualizing the data associated with those habits.

In this video, I walk you through how to set it all up. And if you want to copy/paste the Canvas dashboard code, it’s included my Starter Vault 🙂

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RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO: ⚙️ Callout Manager Plugin: https://github.com/eth-p/obsidian-callout-manager ⚙️ Tracker Plugin: https://github.com/pyrochlore/obsidian-tracker

OTHER YOUTUBE VIDEOS MENTIONED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ev0E-5u5WI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPgZTiA69y4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2VfeT1dsxY

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My Notes

This tutorial shows how to track habits in Obsidian using the Tracker plugin.

0:00 - Intro

0:37 - Habits 101

2:19 - Configuring Daily Notes

  • Add the habits you want to track as tasks in your daily notes.
    • Personally I think I’ll prefer to track habits using frontmatter instead of tasks.

2:54 - Setting Up the Template

5:06 - Creating Custom Callouts

6:47 - The Tracker Plugin

7:29 - Setting Up the Dashboard

The setup and syntax for this dashboard is pretty gnarly. If you’re gonna do this dashboard, use his template found here.

12:35 - The Workflow

13:39 - Which Habits to Track?

14:10 - Conclusion