PSA: Switched from digital tracker to paper one after losing 3 months of data

My habit tracker app crashed last Tuesday and took all my June, July, and August logs with it. The paper version I switched to, just a simple grid in my bujo, has been way more reliable and honestly faster to fill in. Anyone else had a cloud sync wipe out their progress?

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elizabetha921mo ago

Paper is honestly underrated for this. You said cloud sync wiped out your progress, so I gotta ask: did the app give you any warning before it crashed, or did it just go dark one day with zero backup option? Because if there was no way to export or save a local copy, that feels like a design flaw worth naming and shaming. I've been burned by auto-sync before too, but my workaround is a monthly screenshot of my tracker as a safety net. Seems like paper just makes that kind of habit pointless though, which is kind of a relief.