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Fall seven, rise eight.

Eightfold is a habit tracker for anyone who has started over more times than they can count. Tick a habit and it becomes a fold. Tick them all and you have a crane. A thousand cranes make a wish.

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Try it with today's six

    No folds yet. Tap a habit you've done.

    Seven falls, then a spreadsheet.

    For most of my life I started habits and dropped them: a few weeks of running, a burst of DSA, then nothing. It hardly mattered until life got harder and the missing discipline started to show. So I'm starting again. Fall seven times, rise eight. This is the eighth, and that's the name.

    Since January the eighth try has lived in a Google Sheet called oze's Habit Tracker v2: thirteen tabs, a checkbox for every habit on every day, and a wall of COUNTIFs holding it together like sticky tape on a paper model. It worked. It also looked like a tax return.

    So I'm folding it into something lighter: the same habits and the same numbers, nothing to babysit, and a crane at the end of every good day. Every tick is a fold, and a missed day is only a fall. You get up, you fold again.

    An open woodblock-printed book from 1797 showing a crane feeding beside children under a plum tree
    A Thousand Cranes and How to Fold Them, the oldest origami book, 1797.

    The whole sheet, minus the formulas.

    Every number from the old tabs is still here, worked out from your ticks the moment you make them.

    A page from the 1797 folding book with a line drawing of a paper crane and its folding square

      The year so far.

      A woodblock print of a long flight of cranes crossing a red sun

        Things a spreadsheet can't do.

        Thousands of paper cranes on strings hanging at a shrine in Kyoto

        A thousand cranes by New Year's Eve

        Every tick folds one crane. Legend says a thousand of them grant a wish.

        Your day, in order

        Your habits already had times in their names. Eightfold lays them out from morning to night, shows what's next and nudges you when one is due.

          A Hiroshige woodblock print of a red-crowned crane diving over a breaking wave

          Streaks that survive the 1st

          In the sheet every streak reset with the new tab. Here a run that starts on the 28th keeps counting on the 1st.

          Perfect days get confetti

          Tick every habit in a day and the crane takes off.

          Next on the folding table

          • Nudges that arrive with the app closed
          • Android and iOS apps
          • Sync between phone and laptop
          • A weekly recap you can share
          A woodblock print of cranes flying past seaside pine trees

          Pick up where you left off.

          All ten months of the sheet are already folded in. Nothing to import, nothing to copy.

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