Don't know what to track or where to start with a routine tracker?

Start with one small routine you already half do, put two or three steps in it, and log them today. You do not need to decide what to track for the rest of your life before you begin: the first week of logs tells you what to add next.

Why choosing feels so hard

A blank tracker invites you to list everything you would like to change: sleep, water, exercise, reading, skincare, money. Faced with that list, most people either track all of it for three days and give up, or never start.

The question "what should I track?" usually has a smaller answer than it seems. You are not choosing your life goals. You are choosing the first thing you will tap tomorrow morning.

Pick your first habits in five minutes

Use these filters, in this order:

Something you already do most days. Taking a vitamin, brushing your teeth, a morning coffee walk. Logging a habit that already exists teaches you the logging part without also fighting for the habit itself.
Something you keep wondering about. "Did I take it?", "When did I last water the fern?". If you have asked yourself the question twice this month, it is worth a log.
One thing you want to add. Only one. Stretching, reading ten pages, flossing. Keep it small enough to do on a bad day.

Stop at three. If a fourth idea comes up, write it on a list for later instead of adding it now.

Mistakes that make people quit in week one

Tracking ten things on day one. Every empty box becomes a small failure, and the app starts to feel like homework.
Tracking goals instead of actions. "Be healthier" cannot be logged. "Walk after lunch" can.
Building the perfect system first. Colors, categories and schedules can wait. A rough routine you log beats a beautiful one you do not.
Starting with the hardest habit. Put an easy win next to it so the routine still gets logs on tough days.

The three building blocks in EasyRoutine

EasyRoutine has only three things to understand:

A routine is a named group, such as Morning or Skincare. Start with one.
An activity is one step inside it: a name, an optional photo and a color. Add two or three.
A log records that you did an activity and when. You make one with a tap on the day, or by scanning a photo of the item (the AI photo scan matches it to one of your activities that has a photo).

That is the whole setup. Logging, the photo scan and the calendar are free, so you can try it without deciding anything about plans or payment first.

EasyRoutine activity sheet for a Water activity with a photo of a glass, a name field and a color choice — An activity is a name, a photo and a color

Your first day, step by step

Tap Add routine and call it something plain, like Morning.
Add two or three activities. A photo of the actual item (the vitamin bottle, your water glass) makes each one easy to spot and lets you log it by scanning later.
When you do one of them today, open the Calendar tab, tap Log and pick it. That is your first entry.
Do the same tomorrow. After a few days the week view shows which steps stuck.

If you want to plan the routine on paper first, the setup guide with a worksheet walks through choosing the steps and gives two example routines to copy.

EasyRoutine week view of a Morning routine with logged entries for water, vitamins and stretch on most days — A few days in, the week shows what stuck

After the first week

Look at the week view and ask two questions. Which activity has a log almost every day? That one is working, so leave it alone. Which one is mostly empty? Make it smaller, move it to a better moment, or drop it.

Only then add the next thing from your list. If it belongs to another part of your day, give it its own routine, such as Evening or Gym, so each calendar stays short. You can have more than one routine at no cost.