Samantha Belliose
Jun 18, 2024 · 6 min read
Organize your counters into the areas of your life that actually matter
You started tracking with one counter. Then a few more. Now your Counters page is a single flat list where "Morning meditation" sits next to "Client invoices" sits next to "Push-ups", and the thing you wanted to check this morning is three scrolls down.
A long list does not just look messy. It quietly pulls your attention away from what you care about. When everything is mixed together, no single area of your life stands out, and the daily effort you put in stops mapping to the things you actually want to build.
Groups fix that. They let you sort your counters into the areas that define your days — morning routine, health, work, home — so your tracking finally mirrors your life instead of one undifferentiated pile.
What a counter group really is
A group is a labeled section that holds related counters together. Instead of scrolling past every counter you own, you open "Health" and see only your health counters: steps, water, workouts, sleep.
That small bit of structure does something bigger. Each group becomes a named area of your life, and the counters inside it are the daily effort you are putting toward that area. You stop seeing twenty random metrics and start seeing where your energy is actually going.
The difference a little structure makes
One scrolling list of fifteen counters. Habits, work metrics, and health all jumbled together. You open the page, feel a small wave of clutter, and close it without logging anything.
Four clear sections: Morning Routine, Health, Work, Home. You open Health, log your water and your walk in seconds, and you can see at a glance which area you have been neglecting this week.
How to group your counters
Setting up groups takes a couple of minutes, and you can reshape them anytime as your priorities change.
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Name your life areas first
Before touching the app, write down the three or four areas you actually care about right now — for example Morning Routine, Health, Work, and Home. These become your groups.
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Create a group
On your counters page, create a group and give it one of those names. Keep the labels short and meaningful to you, not clever.
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Assign your counters
Drop each existing counter into the group where it belongs. "Push-ups" and "Steps" go under Health. "Deep work blocks" goes under Work. A counter lives in one clear place.
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Add new counters straight into a group
Next time you create a counter, place it in the right group from the start so your list never drifts back into a pile.