Noticed a lot of people obsessing over spreads they never use

I keep seeing new bullet journalers on Instagram set up these elaborate month-at-a-glance spreads with habit trackers and mood charts. In my experience, that stuff falls apart after week two because you don't actually check it. I tried a 12-tracker spread last March and by day 10 I had 8 empty rows. Has anyone else found that simpler daily logs work better long term?

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daniel5521mo ago

Started a habit tracker for reading last month and by the second week I was just filling in checks from memory to make the grid look full. It got to where I was spending more time coloring in the boxes than actually building the habits, which defeats the whole point. Kinda realized that the act of setting up the fancy spread made me feel productive without doing the real work.

baker.ben1mo ago

I had the same problem with a workout tracker last year. I got so caught up in making the weekly grid look just right with colored markers that I'd actually skip my morning run just to finish the layout. Finally threw the whole notebook in the drawer and started just writing one sentence on my phone about whether I did it or not.