Habit trackers are a simple, cozy way to turn big new year goals into tiny daily steps you can actually see on the page. Whether you like clean functional layouts or playful themed spreads, there’s a habit tracker style that can fit right into your journal. What Habit Trackers are (and Why They Help) Habit trackers are visual logs where you mark each day you complete a habit usually in a grid, list, or graph so you can see your progress at a glance. Over the month, all those little ticks and coloured boxes add up into a pattern that shows how consistently you’re sticking with your intentions. You can track almost anything you want to be more mindful about. Some popular ideas are: Daily habits: water, steps, journaling, reading, skincare, vitamins, cleaning, no-spend days. Wellbeing: mood check-ins, gratitude, meditation, screen time, in-bed-by-X time. Goals and routines: language practice, creative time, work projects, social time, or even “sent a message to a friend.” Why do they actually help? Having a habit written down and waiting for its little checkmark keeps it from slipping to the bottom of your to-do list. It also gives you an honest but gentle mirror: instead of guessing how “good” or “bad” a month was, you can see the real story right there on the page! Simple and Versatile Trackers If you’re just getting started (or you’re short on time), a simple tracker is the easiest way to dip your toes in. This is where our monthly and weekly tracker stickers really shine, they give you a ready-made grid so you don’t have to draw a single line. Like this Dreamy Jellies spread which is a simple, beginner‑friendly way to set up habit trackers that still feels magical and fun, with the monthly tracker stickers on the right page doing the functional work and the left page just for cute underwater vibes. How this style works: Stick or draw the monthly tracker down on your page, then write the habits you want to track along one side. Each day, mark whether you did each habit using a symbol, a dot, or colour it in. This type of layout is extremely flexible: you can swap habits out every month without changing the structure of the page. It’s quick to set up and easy to read, so it’s perfect if you like clean functional layouts or if you’re still finding your journaling style. Some more examples of a simple spread: This hand-drawn space-themed spread is another simple tracker option if you like using pens instead of stickers, with each little grid acting as a dedicated habit or mood tracker floating in a starry sky. Rachael Somers, one of our facebook community member's movement spread is a good example of how to use multiple stickers to easily set up a tracker enough for the whole year! It's decorated according to the seasons of the year using themes from her H&C subscription.  Creative trackers If you love turning your journal into a tiny art piece every month, a creative tracker might be your new favourite spread. You’re tracking your overall mood and habits for each day using a fun themed page of your choice. This Hungry Pandas spread is a playful, creative take on habit tracking, where each bamboo steamer full of dumplings represents a different habit and slowly “fills up” as you work on it through the month. To make it, sketch several big steaming baskets across both pages, label each one with a habit you want to focus on and add stickers of tiny dumplings inside each basket as you perform a task. How a creative tracker works: Create a page full of shapes to colour in - bubbles, shells, books, leaves, etc. Make a colour key (for example if you’re making a mood tracker: calm, happy, tired, stressed, excited) and assign one colour to each mood. Every evening, fill in the shape according to the mood/activity in the defined colour key. These layouts feels more like a tiny art project than a “productivity tool,” which makes it easier to keep up with when you’re tired. Over time, the page turns into a colourful map of your month, so you can spot patterns like “my Wednesdays always look stormy” or “the second half of the month was way calmer than I thought.” Some more examples: This bookshelf mood tracker turns your feelings into little moments tucked between books, yarn, and candles, with the left page acting as a giant mood shelf and the right page holding your to-do list and functional stickers. This peachy August spread is a super cute example of combining habit tracking and health tracking in one theme, with your tracker stickers tucked into big peaches on the left and hand-drawn grids on the right. Practical Style Trackers If you’re curious about how different parts of your life affect each other like sleep and water intake, or screen time and energy, a graph-style tracker might be the most helpful fit. This spread is a great example of a practical tracker layout, pairing a straightforward water log on the left with a circular fruit-and-veg tracker on the right so you can see two key health habits at a glance.  What these spreads look like: Sleep tracker: draw a simple graph with days of the month along the bottom and hours slept (or bedtime) up the side, then use a line or bar for each night. Energy tracker: rate your energy from 1–10 each day and connect the dots to see how it rises and falls across the month. Combo trackers: track two things on the same graph, for example, plot sleep as a line and use stickers or dots for “workout days” or “no-screen nights” to see how they line up. Graph-style spreads make patterns really obvious, like “whenever I stay up past midnight, my next-day energy plummets,” or “my mood is better on weeks when I drink more water.” They’re perfect if you enjoy the satisfaction of data but still want a cozy, sticker-filled journal instead of a spreadsheet. Another example of a practical spread: This October spread shows a very practical way to track lots of specific habits and metrics at once, using mini monthly calendars on the left and simple bar-style graphs on the right, all tied together with cozy fall critter stickers.  No matter which style you try, simple sticker grids, playful themed pages, or more practical graph-style layouts, the best habit tracker is the one you actually enjoy filling out and can stick with all month long. If you’d like more ideas, variations, and real-life examples from others who love to journal, make sure to check out our Facebook group, where the community shares their own habit tracker spreads all year round!