Make Journal a Better Habit & Streak Tracker
planned (soon)
Daniel
Tracking my habits and streaks is highly motivating. It would be amazing to extend the Journal functionality to give a better overview of how each habit performed over time.
Some ideas:
- Track and display the streak of each habit
- Allow seeing a year/month overview of each habit, similar to the Bevel fitness activity history or the GitHub activity graph, to easily see when and how often I succeeded or failed. Also show a summary in numbers, like "succeeded on x days, failed on x days over the last month"
- Allow setting success notifications for successful streaks
- Add a second view of the journal page, where the focus is on the streaks, displaying the streak for each habit, instead of the calendar and the ability to check or uncheck the habit for this day. Allow making it the default screen on the Journal page
- Add a streak widget
Leah
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Improve Journal - Weekly Habit Goals & Progress Tracking
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Arnold Cekaj
I think Bevel’s habit tracking could be significantly improved by adding a dedicated Habits/Goals section with weekly targets.
Currently, what feels missing is the ability to set a habit as a weekly goal rather than something that needs to be completed every day.
For example, I should be able to create goals such as:
* Run at least 1 time per week
* Complete 2 strength-training sessions per week
* Stretch 3 times per week
* Complete 150 minutes of cardio per week
* Have 5 alcohol-free days per week
* Reach my sleep target 5 nights per week
Bevel could then show progress throughout the week, such as:
Strength Training — 1/2 completed
Running — 1/1 completed ✓
Stretching — 2/3 completed
There could also be an overall Weekly Habits Score, for example 78% completed this week, with a clear visual showing which goals have been completed and which still need attention.
It would also be useful to see previous weeks so you can track consistency over time — for example:
* Weekly completion percentage
* Streaks
* Trends for each habit
* Long-term consistency
* Comparison with previous weeks
Ideally, workouts and other measurable habits should be automatically detected from Apple Health/Bevel data, so if I complete a strength workout or run, it automatically counts towards that week’s target without requiring manual input.
Habits could support different types of targets too — frequency, duration or quantity. For example, “Run 2 times”, “Complete 150 minutes of cardio” or “Walk 50,000 steps” could all be weekly goals.
Connect Training Plans to Habits
The new Training Plans should also integrate directly with this Habits/Goals system.
If my Training Plan requires:
2 Strength Sessions + 1 Run + 1 Mobility Session per week
Bevel should automatically create or populate those targets within my weekly Habits rather than requiring me to set them up separately.
My Habits could then show:
Strength Training — 1/2 completed
Running — 1/1 completed ✓
Mobility — 0/1 completed
As workouts are completed, Bevel should automatically update the corresponding goals.
This would make the Training Plan feel much more actionable because I could immediately see what I need to complete this week and how much I’ve already done.
Journal + Timeline
I also think the new Timeline feature could be incorporated into Journal, turning Journal into the central place for viewing both your past and future.
Instead of Journal mainly being somewhere to look backwards, it could become a chronological health and training timeline.
Past: Completed workouts, completed habits, sleep, recovery, health metrics and Journal entries.
Today: Today’s planned workout, recovery, health information and progress towards weekly habits.
Future: Upcoming Training Plan workouts, scheduled activities and other planned goals.
For example, if my Training Plan has a strength workout scheduled for Tuesday and a run on Thursday, these could appear in the future Journal/Timeline. Once the workout is completed, the planned session could transition into the completed activity.
This would create one connected system:
Training Plan → Weekly Habits/Goals → Journal/Timeline → Completed Activity → Progress & Trends
Training Plans tell me what I should do.
Habits tell me whether I’m actually doing it.
Journal/Timeline shows me when I did it and how my body responded.
This would make Bevel much more useful as an actual health improvement tool. Instead of primarily showing health and recovery data, it would help users plan behaviours, follow them throughout the week, measure completion and understand how consistently following those behaviours affects their health over time.
Leah
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Have heart rates zones as habits in the journal
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Arnold Cekaj
Would be amazing to use the journal as a goals / habit tracker. Loads of good suggestion already suggested but would be amazing to be able to set heart rate zones goals for the day or week
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Jay
This would be amazing. A streak tracker that has metrics on how it affects recovery.
Leah
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Wearable day streak
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Jonathan Whyte Seim
Same with like the woop streak but for bevel with all wearables
Leah
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Heatmap style card and widget
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Louis
I enjoy using Bevel cards as iPhone widgets. I would love to see a heatmap style widget, where at a glance you can see which days in the past you have met certain user defined goals, such as getting good sleep, having enough exercise etc. I think this would be really nice and motivating to keep up with good habits!
Leah
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Counter in time records
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Juan Carlos Graells Pérez
Good!
It would be a great feature if you could add counters to the diary for things like tobacco (cigarettes), marijuana...
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Ethan Hutchison
Also have the updated habits where they can be created and updated by bevel intelligence. That would be great!!
Leah
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Fitness habits tracker
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Sima Bittar
I would suggest having a section maybe under the journal tab to track those healthy habits such as sleeping early, burning x amount of calories, working out, etc.. it would be nice to see the consistency and progress.
Leah
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Journal entries week/year overview (Like a habit tracker)
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Robin Ansermet
Journal is very cool but you could make it more user-friendly and make car recognition more reliable. In addition, it would be cool if you could also use the journal in a kind of way like Habit Tracker or that you have at least one week/month/year overview per journal entry
Leah
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A series where you can see how long you have been sleeping and tracking
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Sese Kramer
A streak where you can see how many nights you've already been tracking in a row and also for steps and training, for example.
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