Has the "daily streak" gamification broken how we track our lives?

Hey everyone,

As builders, we are obsessed with tracking things daily. MRR, commits, workouts, Inbox Zero. Because of this, almost every productivity app on the market is optimized for "streaks."

But I realized recently that my "mental RAM" isn't being eaten up by daily habits. It’s being drained by the irregular maintenance of life:

• Changing the AC filter

• Watering specific houseplants

• Reaching out to dormant network contacts

• Taking as-needed medication

If you put a 3-week task into a standard habit tracker, you just end up breaking a streak and staring at a red calendar of guilt.

I got so frustrated by this that I ended up building an "anti-habit tracker" (SinceWhen) just to calculate these irregular intervals for me and tell me when I'm due next without the guilt-trip. We launch in a few hours!

But before we go live, I’m super curious: How is everyone else handling the mental load of irregular chores?

Are you using a chaotic Apple Reminders list? Blocking out Google Calendar events? Building complex Notion databases? Or just relying on pure brain power and hoping for the best?

Would love to hear what your current stack looks like for the stuff you don't do every day.