Adding Easy to Use Habit Tracker Within Daily Notes

[thorns]

What I’m trying to do

Hello all,

Currently I am using an inline Dataview query to track habit completion, for example if I want to meditate for ten minutes I have it set up like so: Meditation: (meditation:: 0) and then, when/if I meditate, I update the 0 to reflect how many minutes I spent meditating.

I would like to be able to update this more easily, particularly on my phone. I typically keep this information in a notebook but when my chronic illness keeps me from writing, I use Obsidian as a backup so that I won’t forget.

By “easy” what I mean is that, again going back to the meditation example, I would like to either have a box to check that is then reflected as a boolean that Dataview can read, or better yet a way to either enter a number or increment from zero by using plus and minus buttons. Is such a thing possible in Obsidian?

Things I have tried

I am a new user to Obsidian, so I have tried to implement other solutions found on this forum; however, none do quite what I want. I have also read articles, but again they miss the mark. I have MetaEdit and MetaBind enabled but I am currently struggling to implement them in my vault.

Thank you in advance for any insights or suggestions.

[holroy]

Take a look at the answer below, which outlines his to use buttons to increase/decrease the number of correct answers. That sounds like a very similar use case.

Counting correct answers to questions

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[thorns]

Thank you for this link, I think it should at least give me an idea as for where to start.