Found out my habit tracker was lying to me for 8 months

I was flipping through my June spread last week and noticed my water intake column looked suspicious. Turns out I'd been marking the wrong row because I put the daily totals on the same line as the weekdays instead of the dates. I checked back to January and about 40% of my checkmarks were in the right place, the rest were just noise. Searching the subreddit for 'tracker alignment' showed a bunch of people with the same issue, but nobody pointed out the fix I finally used. I just drew a thick vertical line between the two sections and it stopped happening. Anyone else ever had a system error that took months to notice? What did you do to catch it?

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emery8796d ago

This reminds me of when I set up a chore chart for my kids and we spent like 2 months checking off the wrong week column because the dates were tiny and off to the side. My kid was getting credit for feeding the dog when he hadn't done it in days. Fixed it by making him initial each box instead, which apparently also taught him his letters so win win.

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